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Title: The Royal Book of Oz
In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree
and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the
Silver Island

Author: L. Frank Baum
Ruth Plumly Thompson

Illustrator: John R. Neill

Release Date: November 24, 2009 [EBook #30537]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ

In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and
discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the
Silver Island, and how he was rescued and
brought back to Oz by Dorothy
and the Cowardly Lion

BY

L. FRANK BAUM

ENLARGED AND EDITED
BY

RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON

ILLUSTRATED BY

JOHN R. NEILL

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago

_Printed in the United States of America_

Copyright, 1921
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.

All Rights Reserved

Dear Children:

You will remember that, in the front part of Glinda of Oz, the
Publishers told you that when Mr. Baum went away from this world he
left behind some unfinished notes about the Princess Ozma and Dorothy
and the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz. The Publishers
promised that they would try to put these notes together into a new
Oz book for you.

Well, here it is--The Royal Book of Oz.

I am sure that Mr. Baum would be pleased that Ruth Plumly Thompson,
who has known and loved the Oz Stories ever since she was a little
girl, has made this new Oz story, with all the Oz folks in it and
true to life.

You see I am Mrs. Baum, the wife of the Royal Historian of Oz, and so
I know how he feels about everything.

Now, about the story:

Of course, we all knew the Scarecrow was a very fine fellow, but
surely we never guessed he ascended from an emperor. Most of us
descend from our ancestors, but the Scarecrow really ASCENDED.

The Scarecrow had a most exciting and adventurous time on the Silver
Isle and Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion just ran out of one adventure
into another trying to rescue