Meanwhile, Jack and the Sawhorse arrive at the Emerald City and make the acquaintance of His Majesty the Scarecrow. Walking alone, he meets General Jinjur’s all-girl Army of Revolt, which is planning to overthrow the Scarecrow (who has ruled the Emerald City since the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). The Sawhorse runs so quickly that Tip is left behind.
He uses it to animate the wooden Sawhorse for Jack to ride. To avoid being turned into a marble statue, Tip runs away with Jack that very same night and steals the Powder of Life. Mombi tells Tip that she intends to transform him into a marble statue to punish him for his mischievous ways. To Tip’s dismay, Mombi is not fooled by this trick, and she takes this opportunity to demonstrate the new magical “Powder of Life” that she had just obtained from another sorcerer. As Mombi is returning home one day, Tip plans to get revenge and frighten her with a wooden man he has made, with a large Jack-o’-lantern he carves for a head, thus naming him Jack Pumpkinhead. Mombi has always been extremely mean and abusive to Tip. For as long as he can remember, Tip has been under the guardianship of a cruel Wicked Witch named Mombi and lives in the northern quadrant of Oz called Gillikin Country.
The protagonist of the novel is an orphan boy called Tip. The events are set shortly after the events in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after Dorothy Gale’s departure back to Kansas. Summaries Marvelous Land of Oz 1904 First printing This and the next 34 Oz books of the famous 40 were illustrated by John R. Frank Baum’s books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published in July 1904, is the second of L.
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