The Patchwork Girl of Oz
core novel 1913 Oz
Record
| First published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (9,958 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780688133542 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, a magical accident turns Ojo's Unc Nunkie and a woman named Margolotte to stone, leaving the boy desperate to find a cure before the damage becomes permanent. Margolotte's household had recently brought to life a servant made of quilted patches, Scraps, whose vivid, chaotic personality makes her an unpredictable but determined companion for Ojo's journey. Together with Scraps and other companions gathered along the way, Ojo sets out across Oz to locate five rare and difficult-to-obtain magical ingredients needed for the antidote, a quest complicated as much by Oz's stranger laws and inhabitants as by the scarcity of the ingredients themselves.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 7 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 7 of 14: previous The Emerald City of Oz (1910) · next Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patchwork_Girl_of_Oz
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