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Obscure public story involving inflation

Submitted by Somedude on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 22:02

Has anyone ever read the Oz series of stories? Apparently, there's a story called "The Balloon-Girl of Oz" where a girl gets inflated an' stuff. I've never read it, but random Google searches led me to find that it's in the collection "The Salt-Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories"... so yeah. Anyone wanna verify whether this is any good?

Thu, 01/05/2006 - 18:04
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Fukureru-Shogun

I did a bit of searching, and it actually sounds intriguing.

http://members.cox.net/cruentidei/oz/review/htp/htp_11.html

Apprently, its illustrated as well. The book its in is abou $25 though..

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Wed, 02/01/2006 - 20:53
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Murkstorm

There were several inflations in the Oz series.

Let me see... The Tin Woodman of Oz had a tribe of balloon people. Scalawagons in Oz had a magical oil that could make people inflate. Whichever book first introduced Jenny Jump (The Wonder City of Oz?) included self-inflating pants. The Cowardly Lion got turned into a balloon in, Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, I think the title was? One of the Ruth Thompson Oz books. There was a second race of balloon people around, living high up in the sky, but I don't recall at all which book featured one of them.

Another one of Baum's books, The Magical Monarch of Mo, had one inflation-themed chapter, after one of Mo's princes went through a giant's clothes-wringer and needed help regaining his proper shape.

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Sun, 02/05/2006 - 06:39
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Somedude

Ha... interesting. I'm guessing we'll have to find the books ourselves if we want to read them, then?

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