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In which the Scarecrow who is teased by the Wogglebug goes in search of his family tree and finds it! He slides down a bean pole, meets muddy Middlings, and finally ends up way under Oz, on the Silver Islands! There, the old Grand Chew-Chew pronounces him Chang-Wang-Woe, the long lost emperor of the Silver Islands. As Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion go in search of the Scarecrow, they meet the Pokes, v e r y slow people and take Sir Hokus, the old Knight with them. They meet Memo and Randum, two weird people who only save lvies on Monday, they come to Fix City, and many other places before meeting the Comfortable Camel and the Doubtful Dromadary and wishing in Wish Way to be with the Scarecrow. They find out that he and his friend Happy Toko (the Scarecrow calls him Tappy Oko, after a pudding) have been tied to a pole! The three evil princes are going to make our Scarecrow into an 85 year old man called Chang Wang Woe! And Ozma can't help them, for she and Betsy Bobbin are stopping a war between the Hoppers and the Horners! What will happen?
THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ was published in 1921 by the Reilly and Lee Co. It is the first Oz book not by L. Frank Baum, but it is the 15th Oz book and on the cover said "By L. Frank Baum ... Edited and Enlarged by Ruth Plumly Thompson" but Thompson wrote the entire story herself and Reilly and Lee did that to see if readers could take the transition between authors better. Of course, John R. Neil's illustration and 12 color plates help a lot! This book is good, but you can tell it is a bit different than Baum's books, for Ruth Plumly Thompson has a writing style of her own.
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