Rinkitink in Oz
core novel 1916 Oz
Record
| First published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.77 (7,099 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782261025 |
| Internal chronology | 10 |
Synopsis
In Rinkitink in Oz, Prince Inga of the small island kingdom of Pingaree wakes to find his homeland invaded, his people carried off into slavery, and his parents taken captive by raiders from a neighboring land. Armed with three magical pearls left to him by his family and accompanied by the jovial, portly King Rinkitink and his bad-tempered talking goat Bilbil, Inga sets out across dangerous seas to track down the invaders and free his people. The journey tests Inga's resourcefulness and the pearls' varied powers as the unlikely trio ventures further from Pingaree than the young prince has ever traveled, determined to restore his family and kingdom.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 10 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L. Frank Baum
Notes
- From the series record (The Oz Books): L. Frank Baum's own 14 Oz novels, one continuous author-written saga (1900-1920, the last published posthumously a year after his 1919 death). Registered per the credited-authorship-as-bright-line precedent: Core Canon = Baum's own 14 novels only. Ruth Plumly Thompson (and, later, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, and others) continued the series with an officially licensed further ~26 'Famous Forty' Oz books after Baum's death -- explicitly out of scope (a sprawling multi-author catalogue to register in a later pass rather than all at once); logged as a future candidate for a later pass. No formal literary award existed for children's fantasy in this era; this project's genre-historical-significance precedent (King of Elfland's Daughter, The Worm Ouroboros, Lud-in-the-Mist) applies -- Oz is a foundational work of American fantasy, adapted into the 1902 Broadway musical and the 1939 MGM film.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Oz Books: position 10 of 14: previous The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) · next The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinkitink_in_Oz
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