Experience a classic in its truest form, and pick up this beautiful new edition of The Incredible Ozma of Oz. This handsome, affordable edition contains original full-color artwork by John R. The hen is able to speak Dorothy gives it the name Billina. She takes refuge on a floating chicken-coop, which washes ashore, along with the coop and a hen in it. Luckily, Princess Ozma and her Royal Court of Oz are on their way! Ozma of Oz 1907 First printing On an ocean voyage with her uncle Henry to Australia, Dorothy is blown into the sea by a storm. When Dorothy refuses to give the spoiled royal her head for her collection, the princess throws the girl into her tower dungeon. Ozma of Oz has delighted children and adults for over eighty years, and now new generations can enjoy the unforgettable characters and the surprising and funny story in this deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Tik-Tok then takes the two to the ruling leader of the land, a vain princess with detachable heads. When they come ashore and Billina speaks to Dorothy, the young girl realizes that they’ve definitely arrived in a “fairy country”-but it isn’t Oz! After being chased by Wheelers, evil creatures with wheels for hands and feet, Dorothy and Billina meet Tik-Tok, a mechanical man who informs them that they are in the Land of Ev.

In Ozma of Oz, Dorothy is traveling aboard a boat with her Uncle Henry, when she is washed overboard in a storm along with a yellow chicken named Billina. In the third book of the classic children’s series, Dorothy makes her return to the fantastical land of Oz, reuniting with her dear friends the Tinman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and greeting new friends introduced in The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Frank Baum’s beloved Wizard of Oz series continues to delight and enchant readers today. Originally published over 100 years ago, L. Baum's lessons seem especially relevant.'- The New York Times Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L.

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum