The Road to Oz
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About This Book
Meet Dorothy's new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Find out how they are able to cross the Deadly Desert and finally get to the Emerald City of Oz.
Chapters (36)
- The Road to Oz
- In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road and followed it all the way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.
- L. Frank Baum
- "Royal Historian of Oz"
- To My Readers
- 1. The Way to Butterfield
- 2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright
- 3. A Queer Village
- 4. King Dox
- 5. The Rainbow's Daughter
- 6. The City Of Beasts
- "HAF A MYLE TO DUNKITON."
- 7. The Shaggy Man's Transformation
- 8. The Musicker
- 9. Facing the Scoodlers
- 10. Escaping the Soup-Kettle
- 11. Johnny Dooit Does It
- ALL PERSONS ARE WARNED NOT TO VENTURE UPON THIS DESERT For the Deadly Sands will Turn Any Living Flesh to Dust in an instant. Beyond This Barrier is the LAND OF OZ But no one can Reach that Beautiful Country because of these Destroying Sands
- 12. The Deadly Desert Crossed
- 13. The Truth Pond
- THE TRUTH POND
- 14. Tik-Tok and Billina
- 15. The Emperor's Tin Castle
- 16. Visiting the Pumpkin-Field
- Here Lies the Mortal Part of JACK PUMPKINHEAD Which Spoiled April 9th.
- Here Lies the Mortal Part of JACK PUMPKINHEAD Which Spoiled October 2nd.
- Here Lies the Mortal Part of JACK PUMPKINHEAD Which Spoiled January 24th.
- 17. The Royal Chariot Arrives
- 18. The Emerald City
- 19. The Shaggy Man's Welcome
- THE SHAGGY MAN: HIS BOX OF ORNAMENTS
- 20. Princess Ozma Of Oz
- 21. Dorothy Receives the Guests
- 22. Important Arrivals
- 23. The Grand Banquet
- 24. The Birthday Celebration
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