This book was kind of humorous. It starts off with Dorothy (yes, we see Dorothy again!) on a ship sailing to Australia with Uncle Henry. She gets swept overboard in a storm along with a yellow hen and finds herself in the Land of Ev, which is separated from the Land of Oz by a vast desert.
Now, the title of this book is a bit misleading. You really spend most of the book following Dorothy with a few forays into Ozma or Billina (the yellow hen) leading the story.
While Dorothy is in Ev, she meets a copper man by the name of Tiktok. They meet up with the Princess, who is really vain and has twelve interchangeable heads (weird). Then Ozma appears in Ev on a mission to save the queen of Ev and her ten children who have been enchanted by the King of the Nomes.
The whole time with the King of the Nomes is humorous. Everyone gets a chance to guess which ornaments are the queen and her children, and if they don't get one correct guess, they get transformed into an ornament too. The Nome King is just tricky and devious, but he gets outsmarted by a chicken.
Just, overall, a good book. And my daughter is loving them, so I'll keep reading to her.
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