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FREE THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ PDF L. Frank Baum | 336 pages | 22 Apr 1991 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486265148 | English | New York, United States Patchwork Girl of Oz – booksofwonder The Patchwork Girl of Oz is the seventh book in L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz book series. It was published on 1 July They have noting to eat but bread, and there are only two loaves growing on their bread tree. They visit their only neighbors, Dr. Pipt and his wife Margolotte. There, they learn of the doctor's magic. Margolotte has used the Powder of Life to animate a glass cat named Bungleand she plans to use the Powder to provide herself a servant. She makes a dummy out of a crazy quilt, and selects doses of "Obedience," "Amiability," and "Truth" from her jars of "Brain Furniture. When the Patchwork Girl is animated with the Powder of Life, she is more of everything than anybody expected. Unc Nunkie and Margolotte are accidentally dosed with the Liquid of Petrifaction and are paralyzed into marble statues. Ojo, the zany Patchwork Girl, and the Glass Cat set out to gather the five exotic ingredients needed for the antidote. They set off across the Land of Oz for a series of adventures. Along the way they meet the Woozywho joined their party because the The Patchwork Girl of Oz hairs on his tail were need for the antidote. They traveled a tricky part of the road that moves backward, and encountered Chiss. Although he had been warned, Ojo broke the law by picking a Six-leaved Cloverwhich was one of the ingredients needed to save his uncle. He was promptly arrested by the Soldier with the Green Whiskers at the gate of the Emerald City and spent a night in prison with Tollydiggle the jailer. He met Ozma the next morning and she forgave his crime. They encountered Tottenhots and the captive Yoopand brought an The Patchwork Girl of Oz to the war between the Hoppers and Horners. The Horners also provided Ojo with another of the ingredients for his antidote: water from a dark well. The travelers rafted down a Trick River and reached the Winkie Country to find the final ingredient, the left wing of a yellow butterfly. The Tin The Patchwork Girl of Ozas Emperor of the Winkiesforbade them from injuring even one of the smallest of the creatures in his country. When it appeared that Ojo's quest had failed, the forces of good in the Emerald City stepped in. He wanted to tell other types of fantasy stories. His child readers wanted more Oz; and his bankruptcy meant that he needed more royalty income from his books. A return to Oz was requisite. But how? At the end of the sixth book, Baum had sealed Oz off from the rest of the world with a barrier of invisibility. Taking a hint from one of his child fans, the author got around this barrier by introducing the "wireless telegraph" to Oz. The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Shaggy Man knows Morse code. Extant evidence shows that Baum had originally written a different Chapter 21 for the book. His text has not survived, but John Neill's pictures and captions still exist. The original chapter was called "The Garden of Meats," and dealt with vegetable people like the Mangaboos of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Neill's pictures show flowers with children's faces being watered by their vegetable-men growers. The vegetable creatures The Patchwork Girl of Oz ordinary humans, "meat people," apparently for food. This is thematically linked with the anthropophagous plants in Chapter 10 of Patchwork Girl. Publisher Frank Reilly suggested to Baum that the material in this chapter was not "in harmony with your other fairy stories," and would generate "considerable adverse criticism. Baum suggested replacing the excised material with an episode about "Marshmallow Twins, who are to appear in another story. The marshmellow twins were stillborn in the author's imagination. Baum's return to Oz met with public acceptance. The Patchwork Girl of Oz sold 17, copies in its first year on the market, better than Baum's non-Oz fantasies had done. Emerald City had sold 20, copies in the same interval. The Patchwork Girl of Oz Patchwork Girl proved a popular character, who could be relied upon for comic relief; she makes appearances in many subsequent Oz books. Other Oz writers have also taken advantage of the Patchwork Girl's possibilities. Gilbert M. Outside the bounds of Oz, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl is a critically-praised work of hypertext fiction that exploits the Frankenstein story in a feminist context. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Categories :. Universal Conquest Wiki. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz Tik- Tok of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Rinkitink in Oz The Lost Princess of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz () - IMDb The Patchwork Girl aka Scraps is a fictional The Patchwork Girl of Oz created by L. Frank Baum. Scraps comes from Oz's eastern quadrant known as the Munchkin Country in The Patchwork Girl of Oz magical Land of Oz and eventually becomes the love interest of the Scarecrow. The Patchwork girl is a life-size living doll made from various pieces of patchwork quilts. She's taller than a young boy, and her body is plump and rounded because it is stuffed with cotton. She wears a patchwork skirt, a patchwork apron with pockets, and red leather shoes with pointy toes. She has silver button eyes sewn on with black thread to create the pupils. Her hair is brown yarn done in braids. She has thin golden discs for ears and also golden fingernails. One of her cheeks is yellow and the other red, her chin blue, her forehead purple and her nose bright yellow. She has a red felt tongue, and pearl teeth. The woman had cut a slit for the Patchwork Girl's mouth and sewn two rows of white pearls in it for The Patchwork Girl of Oz, using a strip of scarlet plush for a tongue. This mouth Ojo considered very artistic and lifelike, and Margolotte was pleased when the boy praised it. There were almost too many patches on the face of the girl for her to be considered strictly beautiful, for one cheek was yellow and the other red, her chin blue, her forehead purple and the center, where her nose had been formed and padded, a bright yellow. She was originally made by Margolottethe Munchkin wife of Dr. Piptto be a servant girl. The patchwork quilt had been made by her grandmother, and never used as it wasn't all blue; Marglotte thought it was an excellent choice as it would keep her future servant from thinking herself very beautiful. She made the doll with great The Patchwork Girl of Oz while her husband spent six years creating the Powder of Life to make her live. She intended to give the girl only a few brains - obedience, truth, amiability and a The Patchwork Girl of Oz cleverness. Ojowho was The Patchwork Girl of Oz the magician with his Unc Nunkiefelt that this was unfair and gave Scraps all of the kinds of brains the magician kept. As a result, Scraps has courage, learning, judgment, ingenuity, self reliance, poesy, and a double dose of cleverness in addition to the amiability, obedience, and truth. Unfortunately Ojo did not get the balance exactly right, so she seems a bit crazy to those around her. When she was brought to life, she flung out an arm, knocking the Powder of Life from the magician's hand. Unc Nunkie and Margolotte both jumped, and accidentally knocked the Liquid of Petrifaction onto themselves; they were both turned into marble. There was no Powder of Life left; it had all spilled onto a phonographand it would take six years to make a new batch. Ojo, Scraps, and Bungle set out across Oz to collect the ingredients for a remedy to the Liquid of Petrifaction which could bring Unc Nunkie and Margolotte back to life. Along the way, Scraps and the Scarecrow met for the first time. Both were very impressed with each other. The Guardian of the Gates was also impressed, and wrote a song in her honor called " The Speckled Alligator ". Scraps accompanied Ojo as he continued his quest, joined by Dorothy Gale and the Scarecrow. They resolved The Patchwork Girl of Oz war between the Hoppers and Horners and met the Tin Woodman before returning to the Emerald City where Scraps was set free from The Patchwork Girl of Oz to her creators. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Scraps has always been a popular character, however she has appeared in only five film productions, two of which were made for television. When L. Frank Baum produced a film version of the title story, he was not able to find a woman of athleticism suitable to play the role, and therefore cast the male French acrobat Pierre Couderc. She was portrayed by The Patchwork Girl of Oz Tracy on the 4th Anniversary episode of Disneyland. The Patchwork Girl as portrayed in Return to Oz by an unknown actor. She also appeared in Walter Murch's Return to Oz as an unbilled extra in the coronation scene.

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