Ruth Plumly Thompson: THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ: In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island, and how he was rescued and brought back to Oz by Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion.

Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson

Narrated by philip chenevert

Professor Wogglebug announces his plan to create a genealogy of the important people in Oz, a "Royal Book." In so doing, he inadvertently insults the Scarecrow as a person of no family, no ancestry. The abashed Scarecrow goes home to the Munchkin Country to look into his roots. He digs at the base of the beanpole where he hung when Dorothy first found him; he breaks through to a cavity and falls deep through the earth to another country, a place called the Silver Island. There, his arrival is seen as fulfilling a prophecy, and he is hailed as the return of the people's lost Emperor.

Suddenly, the Scarecrow has gone from having no background to having almost too much. He enjoys being Emperor at first; he even defeats an invasion from the King of the Golden Islands. He makes a good friend in a palace servant named Happy Toko (The Scarecrow calls him Tappy Oko). Yet his situation soon becomes complicated and uncomfortable; as Emperor Chang Wang Woe, he has three princely sons who quickly start planning his overthrow, and fifteen unpleasant grandsons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip Chenevert
• Release date: May 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798882212864

Ruth Plumly Thompson

Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 - 6 April 1976) was a children's author. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she sold her first story to St. Nicholas Magazine, a monthly children's magazine, while still in high school. After publishing her first book, The Perhappsy Chaps, she was asked to continue the Oz series following L. Frank Baum's death. Beginning in 1921, she wrote one Oz book a year through 1939; after writing two more in 1972 and 1976, she had contributed 21 new Oz books to the series.