Kabumpo in Oz

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Kabumpo in Oz
Cover of Kabumpo in Oz
Author	Ruth Plumly Thompson
Illustrator	John R. Neill
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Oz books
Genre	Children's novel
Publisher	Reilly & Lee
Publication date	1922; 102 years ago (1922)
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Preceded by	The Royal Book of Oz
Followed by	The Cowardly Lion of Oz

Kabumpo in Oz (1922) is the sixteenth Oz book, and the second written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was the first Oz book fully credited to her. (Her first, The Royal Book of Oz, was credited to L. Frank Baum on the cover.) This is the last Oz book to enter in the public domain by means of automatic copyright expiration. There are, however, other later Oz books in the public domain, due to their copyrights not being renewed.

Plot summary

During Prince Pompadore of Pumperdink's eighteenth birthday celebration, his birthday cake explodes, revealing a magic scroll, a magic mirror, and a doorknob. The scroll warns the prince that if he doesn't wed a "proper princess" within seven days, his entire kingdom will disappear. The prince, along with the kingdom's wise elephant Kabumpo, set off on an adventure to the Emerald City so Pompa can marry Princess Ozma, the only "proper princess" the Elegant Elephant can think of as worthy of his prince.^[1]

Meanwhile, Ruggedo the Gnome King (Thompson "corrected" Baum's spelling of "Nome") finds Glegg's Box of Mixed Magic while tunnelling under the Emerald City. After he brings a wooden doll, Peg Amy, to life, and makes Wag the rabbit^[2] the size of a man, Ruggedo turns himself into a giant. This means that Ozma's palace gets stuck on his head, and in a panic he runs off to Ev with it.

After many adventures in the strange lands of Rith Metic, the Illumi Nation, and the Soup Sea, Pompadore and Kabumpo arrive in the Emerald City to find Ozma missing. They set off to find her and eventually meet up with Wag and Peg Amy. The group reaches the edge of the Deadly Desert and is hijacked by the Runaway Country, a conscious, talking, mobile piece of land. It carries them over the desert to Ev.

Eventually, Peg Amy is revealed to be the princess of Sun Top Mountain (she was turned into a tree by the evil magician J. Glegg when she refused to marry him, then Cap'n Bill took part of the tree and carved her into a wooden doll for Trot), and Pompadore marries her.

References

↑ Jack Snow, Who's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; pp. 115, 151-2, 166.
↑ Who's Who in Oz, pp. 145, 157-8, 234-5.

External links

The Oz books
Previous book: The Royal Book of Oz	Kabumpo in Oz 1922	Next book: The Cowardly Lion of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Canonical
books

L. Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) Ozma of Oz (1907) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) The Road to Oz (1909) The Emerald City of Oz (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) Rinkitink in Oz (1916) The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) The Magic of Oz (1919) Glinda of Oz (1920)
Ruth Plumly Thompson	The Royal Book of Oz (1921) Kabumpo in Oz (1922) The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) Grampa in Oz (1924) The Lost King of Oz (1925) The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926) The Gnome King of Oz (1927) The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930) Pirates in Oz (1931) The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) Ojo in Oz (1933) Speedy in Oz (1934) The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) Captain Salt in Oz (1936) Handy Mandy in Oz (1937) The Silver Princess in Oz (1938) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939) Yankee in Oz (1972) The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976)
Others	The Wonder City of Oz (1940) The Scalawagons of Oz (1941) Lucky Bucky in Oz (1942) The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980) The Ozmapolitan of Oz (1986) The Wicked Witch of Oz (1993) The Giant Garden of Oz (1993) The Runaway in Oz (1995) The Rundelstone of Oz (2000) The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005) Trouble Under Oz (2006)
Alternate	Dorothy of Oz (1989) Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage (1995)

Locations
and elements

Characters

Created by
L. Frank Baum

Created by
other writers

Other writers

Authors	John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Eric Shanower Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum
Illustrators	William Wallace Denslow John R. Neill Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Leonid Vladimirsky Eric Shanower William Stout

Adaptations and other derivative works
Stage	The Wizard of Oz (1902) The Woggle-Bug (1905) The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) The Wizard of Oz (1942) The Wiz (1974) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000) The Wizard of Oz (2011) The Woodsman (2012)
American films	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) The Land of Oz (1910) John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) The Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Rainbow Road to Oz (1954, unproduced) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Journey Back to Oz (1972) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) (educational) The Wiz (1978) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) Lion of Oz (2000) After the Wizard (2011) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2012) Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) OzLand (2014) Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)
Foreign language films	Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (1984) Guardians of Oz (2015) Rainbow (2022)
Other films	The Wizard of Mars (1965) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Oz (1976) The Steam Engines of Oz (2018)
Television	The Wizard of Oz (1950) Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) Return to Oz (1964) Off to See the Wizard (1967) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) The Wizard of Oz (1990) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1992) The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995) The Oz Kids (1996) Lost in Oz (2002) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's Tin Man (2007) Wizard of Odd (2010) Once Upon a Time (2011) The Wiz Live! (2015) Lost in Oz (2015) Emerald City (2017) Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (2017)
Comics	Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05) Adventures in Oz (1986–1992) The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986) Oz Squad (1991) Lost Girls (1991–92) Oz (1994) MÄR Dorothy of Oz (2006) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009) The Marvelous Land of Oz (2010)
Video games	The Wizard of Oz (arcade game) The Wizard of Oz (pinball) The Wizard of Oz (1993) The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) Emerald City Confidential (2009)
Reimagining	The Wizard of the Emerald City (1939) The Number of the Beast (1980) A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1991) The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) Visitors from Oz (1998) Dorothy Must Die (2014) The Wicked Will Rise (2015)
The Wicked Years	Wicked Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz Wicked (musical) Wicked (2024 film)
Others	The Wozard of Iz Edward W. Hardy's The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording) Land of Oz (theme park) Ozma (album)
Related	The International Wizard of Oz Club The Baum Bugle The Dark Side of the Rainbow Twister (1994) Oz Park