I also really like Tiktok, but found him hard to perform. Also like Wizard, Baum does a good job of introducing a set of weird characters who make contributions to the story: Billina the Yellow Hen is an utter delight, and surely one of the best Oz characters Baum ever devised, and I had great fun reading her dialogue aloud in a chicken voice. It must have captured my son's attention, because soon he was sitting in a cardboard box on the floor, claiming to be floating in the ocean himself. Like Wonderful Wizard, Ozma of Oz has a great, arresting opening that immediately plunges the reader (or listener) into adventure: Dorothy is on a ship at sea, a wave knocks her overboard, and soon she is adrift, clinging onto a chicken coop. I read this aloud to my toddler, and I think reading something aloud makes you aware of the pacing and the energy of the text. The Nome King says he turned all the Royal Family into little ornaments in his palace, and proposes a wager with the visitors to see if they can identify them - or become ornaments themselves! Will he honor his promise? And how will our heroes beat his magic belt and huge armies? _Ozma_ also introduced the popular copper robot Tik-Tok, who will turn up in later Oz books.I feel like Baum got his mojo back here after the stumble that was The Marvelous Land of Oz. But Ozma, Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman, The Cowardly Lion, and a small army arrive in Ev, free Dorothy, and decide to rescue the Royal Family of Ev from the Nome King - who lives in caverns under the mountains where the Nomes make gold, silver, and precious gems which they hide under the earth. The king sold his wife and ten children into slavery with the Nome King, then drowned himself in sorrow currently, Ev is "overseen" by Princess Langwidere, a niece who has 30 different heads that she trades off wearing. They are in Ev, to the east of the great desert that surrounds Oz. When the strange craft makes landfall, the hen inside can talk, so Dorothy knows she's in a magic land and names her companion Billina. She survives by climbing into a chicken coop that is also washed into the sea.
In Baum's third Oz book (1907), Dorothy is traveling with her Uncle Henry by sea to visit relatives in Australia when she is swept overboard in a storm.
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