Ruth Plumly Thompson 2 hr 30 min read

When the Ozure Isles and their princess are menaced, Prince Philador and the wooden Giant Horse called High Boy set out on a high-flying quest to save them.

Ruth Plumly Thompson's 1928 novel continues the beloved Oz series. Warm, whimsical, gloriously inventive. Read it for a rousing Oz adventure starring the towering, leg-stretching Giant Horse and a brave young prince, full of new kingdoms and marvels, in one of Thompson's lively entries as Royal Historian of Oz.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John R. Neill