Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III
The Land of Oz is the sixth story in the revised series, The New Fairy Tales. It is the same as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the original series The New Fairy Tales except the name is different and it is more original. It is based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum in 1900.
Dorothy Gale is a Nineteen year old Kansas
City girl who lives with her Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry on their farm. Dorothy
has an American Eskimo dog named Toto that quite often accidentally ruins a local
gardener's garden, Ms. Gulch. She then takes it to the county and they give her
the authority to take Toto to City Hall to be put to sleep. Toto escapes Ms.
Gulch's Car and Dorothy runs away with him. Dorothy soon finds out about a
storm coming, she thinks her Aunt Emma will worry about her and get herself
hurt looking for her in the storm. Dorothy returns to the farm only to be
whisked away by a cyclone the rips the farm right out of the ground. Dorothy
then finds herself in the Land of Oz and surrounded by little people. She then
meets Glinda the Good Witch and Lamallia the Wicked Witch (whose sister Dorothy
unintentionally kills). Lamallia's sister's sapphire slippers are then given to
Dorothy to help her along her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz; whom will grant
her wish and send her back home to Kansas. On her journey, she meets a brainless
scarecrow named Exavior, Cleo (a humanoid robot), a cowardly lion named
Theodore, and a handsome young man named Larkin (Lamallia's son, who has a hidden
agenda). They're all off to see the Wizard in this modern retelling of the 1900
novel by L. Frank Baum.
The Wizard of Oz has always been one of my favorite fairy tales. I have enjoyed coming up with ideas for it and love to work on it. Stay tuned for more info about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
