The Tin Woodman of Oz
core novel 1918 Oz
Record
| First published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.82 (6,280 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780688149765 |
| Internal chronology | 12 |
Synopsis
In The Tin Woodman of Oz, a wandering boy named Woot arrives at the Tin Woodman's castle and, over conversation, prompts him to recall Nimmie Amee, the Munchkin girl he loved and hoped to marry before a witch's curse led to the accidents that gradually replaced his body with tin. Realizing he never learned what became of her afterward, the Tin Woodman sets off with Woot and the Scarecrow to track her down and see how her life has unfolded since he last saw her. Their journey carries them through some of Oz's stranger and less-traveled corners, testing old assumptions about loyalty and memory as much as it tests their ability to navigate the dangers along the way.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 12 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 12 of 14: previous The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) · next The Magic of Oz (1919)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Woodman_of_Oz
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