Jack Snow 2 hr 4 min read

Deep in a hidden domain, the shape-shifting Mimics plot to invade Oz while Ozma is away, and it falls to Dorothy and the Wizard to save the fairyland from creatures who can wear any form.

Jack Snow's 1946 novel is the first post-Thompson Oz book, a worthy continuation of the beloved series. Warm, imaginative, faithful. Read it for a rousing Oz adventure by a devoted Baum scholar, a menacing race of shape-changers, an empty Emerald City, and Dorothy's stand against a truly sinister threat.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

2 hr 4 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer