If he cannot repay his creditors, they will seize the farm, thus leaving Henry and his family homeless. In order to pay it, he has taken out a mortgage on his farm. Later, it is revealed that the destruction of their farmhouse by the tornado back in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has left Uncle Henry in terrible debt. Neither of them believes a word of her stories, but consider her a dreamer, as her dead mother had been. The book was dedicated to 'Her Royal Highness Cynthia II of Syracuse' - actually the daughter (born in the previous year, 1909) of the author's younger brother Henry Clay 'Harry' Baum.Īt the beginning of this story, it is made quite clear that Dorothy Gale (the primary protagonist of many of the previous Oz books), is in the habit of freely speaking of her many adventures in the Land of Oz to her only living relatives, her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. īaum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books to follow. This is the first time in the Oz series that Baum made use of double plots for one of the books. While they are toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling allies for an invasion of Oz. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. It was also adapted into a Canadian animated film in 1987. The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L.

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