Tik-Tok of Oz
core novel 1914 Oz
Record
| First published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.77 (9,053 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782263128 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
In Tik-Tok of Oz, a girl named Betsy Bobbin and her mule are shipwrecked and wash ashore in Oz, where they fall in with the Shaggy Man, who is on a mission to rescue his long-lost brother from imprisonment in the underground realm of the Nome King. Their group steadily grows to include the mechanical man Tik-Tok and Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a minor monarch who has set out with her own small army harboring ambitions of conquering Oz for herself. As this unlikely alliance travels toward the Nome King's domain, their differing goals, rescue for some, conquest for others, must be navigated together as they face the dangers of the underground kingdom.
Where it sits
- Universe: Oz
- Series: The Oz Books core; position 8 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 8 of 14: previous The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) · next The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Sources
- Wikipedia: List of Oz books
- FantasticFiction: L. Frank Baum's Oz books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_of_Oz
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