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    The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
    The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
    The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
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    The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

    Written by L. Frank Baum

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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    This children's fantasy novel is a collection of stories that follow the Monarch of Mo and the people of his magical land. The people of Mo live in a perfect land in which all of their essentials grow on trees. But not all is perfect for the Monarch. He has several adventures throughout the novel, first of which includes the Purple Dragon that eats off his head. A host of other characters join the Monarch of Mo on his crazy adventures - princes and princesses, monsters, dogs, evil wizards, and other creatures. Ultimately, the Monarch of Mo realizes that he must do something to take down the Purple Dragon, who is the major proponent behind his problems.
    L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), an American writer, journalist and script writer, is most famously known for his children's books. Baum attended school for theater and later managed an opera house where he wrote plays as well as acted in them. He had many successes and accomplishments, but his greatest success is "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9781469086590
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    L. Frank Baum

    L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time. MinaLima is an award-winning graphic design studio founded by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, renowned for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series. Specializing in graphic design and illustration, Miraphora and Eduardo have continued their involvement in the Harry Potter franchise through numerous design commissions, from creating all the graphic elements for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando Resort, to designing award-winning publications for the brand. Their best-selling books include Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Archive of Magic: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts screenplays. MinaLima studio is renowned internationally for telling stories through design and has created its own MinaLima Classics series, reimagining a growing collection of much-loved tales including Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and Pinocchio.

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    • 4/5
      In 1896, L. Frank Baum wrote a children’s book he called The king of Phunnyland which was published four years later with the title A new wonderland. This was the same year that his most famous book, The wizard of Oz, was released. That book became very popular and a few years later, to capitalize on that success, a new publisher released the Phunnyland book again, this time with the title The surprising adventures of the magical monarch of Mo and his people. The only change he made to the text was the new name for his land. He also adjusted some of the description. The book still was in fourteen chapters or, as he called them, surprises. Some of Frank Ver Beck’s illustrations, both color plates and black and white text drawings, from the original publication were included in the new edition with some additions. My edition is the facsilmile Dover edition which reproduces the 1903 text and uses all of Ver Beck’s illustrations. It also has an excellent introduction by Martin Gardner.The surprises are tales of Mo, its people and some of their adventures. The inhabitants do not need to work since most everything grows on trees, including violins and bicycles along with food and clothing. There is a root beer river and ponds of custard. There is no money needed. Also I must tell you that no one ever dies in Mo, so when the king went after the Purple Dragon for eating the chocolate caramels before they were ripe, and lost his head, he just needed to have a new one made. Prince Jollikin loses his legs, arms and head but eventually finds them all. Princess Pattycake is given a pill by a good sorceress to cure her bad temper. Prince Fiddlecumdoo visits a friendly giant and is accidentally put through the giantess’s wringer washer. The solution – drill a hole in his head and pump him full of air. Then there is the Turvyland where everything is upside down and contradictory. The Duchess Bredenbutta has a nice but bewildering visit. The book abounds with illogic and puns galore.Although written for a different generation of children, today’s younger folk will not be put off by these stories. After all, they are used to Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner as well as Popeye, Daffy Duck and other cartoon characters. No matter what befalls, they are always OK. And the truly evil in these stories, like the Purple Dragon and King Scowleyow, do have to accept the consequences of their actions.As a child, Baum’s Oz works were popular due to the first TV showing of The Wizard of Oz . The local public library had some of the Oz books and we devoured them all. Had I read The magical monarch of Mo at the time, I would have liked it as much then as I do now.
    • 4/5
      Collection of fantasy short stores linked by a common setting in Mo.
    • 4/5
      I probably first read this book when I was seven or eight years old, when it was my great fortune that Dover reprinted several of L. Frank Baum's non-Oz fantasies in easy-to-afford paperback editions. Although this wasn't my favorite of the bunch, I always liked The Magical Monarch of Mo, and I'm pleased to find out - twenty-five years later - that I still find it very enjoyable. These stories find Baum in transition as a storyteller; they were originally published as A New Wonderland in 1900, and they were slightly revised and reprinted as Mo in 1903. Consequently, they show a stage of Baum's evolution that clearly predates The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; he's playing, here, with established European fairy tale figures and motifs (princes, princesses, dragons, giants, and so on) and just barely turning them on their head. It's not as significant, nor as Americanized, a shift as the "fairy tale" he creates with Wizard, but it's far more Baum's own thing than his 1896 Mother Goose in Prose. There's a very pleasing amount of his punning humor and pragmatic magical logic in The Magical Monarch of Mo - enough, in fact, that you can clearly identify this as writing by the far more famous and individually styled author of almost twenty years later. Of the fourteen "surprises" (not all of which are really long enough or deep enough to qualify as individual stories), some are quite forgettable, while one or two probably could have been left out to the book's benefit. The best of them, though, are marvelously nonsensical: the adventure of the King's missing head, the Prince's fight against the Gigaboo, and the fight with the Purple Dragon. Any one of these show off the great potential Baum had at that moment in time, which he would soon find a way to transmit directly into his own, distinctly American fairy stories of Oz.