L. Frank Baum 4 hr 19 min read

When a spell goes wrong and turns his uncle and aunt to marble, the Munchkin boy Ojo sets out across Oz with the newly-alive Patchwork Girl to gather the ingredients that will restore them.

L. Frank Baum's 1913 novel is a delightful, inventive entry in the beloved Oz series. Warm, funny, charming. Read it for the debut of the madcap Patchwork Girl and the Glass Cat, a rousing quest across Oz for a curious cure, in one of Baum's most imaginative fairyland adventures.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John R. Neill