Description
Stories, Pictures, Games, Puzzles, Hero Tales, Animal Lore, Plays, Fun and Fancy. By Ruth Plumly Thompson. Illustrated by James Hammon, J.W. Gruyer, Ray Robin, Charles J. Coll, Arthur Henderson and others.
2006 reprint edition of the scarce original 1926 book, loaded with around 120 Thompson stories, poems, riddles and much more from her days at the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Numerous B&W illustrations from James Hammon. This edition comes with an informative introduction by Ruth Berman, as well as a handy categorization of the contents, an answer to the puzzles, and an additional poem about the other Handy Mandy!
Although not considered a “Borderlands of Oz” book, this first collection contains some stories that fit within the larger Ozian mythology as listed on The Royal Timeline of Oz.
Amongst the numerous Supposyville poems, shorter poems, playlets, hero tales, animal lore, riddles and even non-fiction, include the following stories:
Marvelous Travels on a Wish
The One-Legged Giant
The Adventures of Peter Spottle
The Home of the Visiting Fairy
In the Bedpost Kingdom
A Komical Little Story
Cups and Saucers
Strange Story of a Green Camel
Trials of Tee Winkum; Tailor-Mouse
The Princess Who Slept Thirty Years
The Story of a Self Made Mouse
The Giant Who Did Not Believe in People
The Dwarf’s Great Leaping Match
It Was Ten O’Clock in Toyland
The Artful Arab and the Corpulent Camel
A Question of Might and Mane
The Tale of Terry Tommy Turtle
The Intellectual Mice in the Library
The Magic of the Secret Word
The Chocolate Rabbit and the Sugar Chick
The Story of the Curly Gold Crown
How the Mice Folks Escaped from the Gnomes
The Tale of the Three Little Trees
Can You Guess Why Are the Willow Trees?
The Story of Tom Thumb Giant
Full color cover dustjacket. Numerous B&W illustrations, 235 pages.
