![]() ![]() ![]() The Nome King is back, and he's still furious that Dorothy and Ozma took his Magic Belt, and rescued the Royal Family of Ev, back in Ozma of Oz. Unlike the previous Oz books that would open with one of our heroes, Baum instead opened with the villain. In 1910, the next book to complete his plan would be published, The Emerald City of Oz. If anything, he probably hoped this would warm his readers up to the idea of him writing non-Oz stories. In The Road to Oz, he attempted to make his Oz readers aware of his other work, by having the main characters from those books appear as guests at Ozma's birthday party. ![]() However, even with pseudonymous works and the endless possibilities of fantasy, Baum felt Oz was too limiting to his talents, yet it was his most popular work. Something Baum never intended was happening at last. ![]()
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