| "The train from 'Frisco was very late. It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house..." (from the first line) Dorothy and the Wizard visit the center of the Earth, where people are vegetables, glass houses grow and Oz characters reappear. Dreamlike adventures, hairbreadth escapes, warm humor, in classic fantasy sequel to Wizard of Oz. Perennial appeal to young and young-at-heart. 66 b/w illus.
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After being caught in an earthquake, Dorothy, her kitten Eureka, her cousin Zeb, and Jim the horse are transported to a city of glass inhabited by evil vegetable people. Joined by the Wizard of Oz and nine piglets, Dorothy and her friends try to make it back home.
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