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What if saving someone you love means breaking rules that protect everyone else?
Ojo lives with his quiet uncle, Unc Nunkie, in a remote corner of Munchkin country. Food runs short, and Ojo believes he is unlucky. Then a magical accident turns his uncle and Margolotte into marble statues. The Crooked Magician can make a remedy, but Ojo must search across Oz for rare ingredients.
Along comes Scraps, a girl made from scraps of cloth and meant to serve in a household. Ojo adds extra qualities to her brains before she comes to life, and obedience is not her strength. With a vain glass cat and the square-bodied Woozy among his companions, his rescue quest becomes a tangle of clashing ideas and difficult choices.
What you’ll discover
- A mind of her own Meet Scraps, whose unruly imagination makes her far more than the servant Margolotte intends.
- Love against the rules Follow Ojo as saving his uncle comes into conflict with other people's safety.
- Companions full of opinions Enjoy playful arguments among creatures with sharply different ideas about their own importance.
- A search across Oz Travel with an unlucky boy whose hope rests on finding rare ingredients.
- Straw meets patchwork Find the Scarecrow in lively company as Scraps brings her inventive mind into his world.
Who will love it
Readers who love fairylands, talking creatures and wordplay will feel at home here, as will families who want a quest story with big laughs and a warm heart, and anyone who enjoys a heroine made of scraps.
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- A hungry boy leaves the forest
- A servant sewn from a quilt
- A terrible accident and a five-part errand
- Strange companions on the blue road
- The Shaggy Man and the tricks of the road
- A six-leaved clover and an arrest
- Down to the dark well
- A trick river and a tin castle
- What the story says and how it speaks
Who’s who
- OjoA kind Munchkin boy called the Unlucky, who sets out to find five magic ingredients to save his marble uncle.
- ScrapsA girl made from a patchwork quilt and full of odd brains. She is cheerful, rude, brave and fond of rhymes.
- Unc NunkieOjo's uncle, the Silent One, who speaks in single words and leaves their forest home when the food runs out.
- Dr. PiptThe Crooked Magician, who makes the Powder of Life and wants to bring his wife's patchwork servant to life.
- BungleThe Glass Cat, who is vain about her pink brains and ruby heart and looks down on everyone she meets.
- The WoozyA square animal with three tail hairs that Ojo needs, who is honest, hungry and proud of his terrible growl.
- The Shaggy ManA cheerful wanderer from Dorothy's world who rescues the travelers from the plants and guides them to the Emerald City.
- OzmaThe girl Ruler of Oz, who enforces the Law but wants every subject to be happy and strong.
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La Fille Patchwork d’Oz
by L. Frank Baum · 1913
A girl sewn from a quilt wakes up laughing, and a boy sets out to save his marble uncle.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a children's fantasy by L. Frank Baum, the ninth of his Oz books, published in 1913.
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A hungry boy leaves the forest
The story begins in a lonely round house deep in the Blue Forest of the Munchkin Country. Ojo lives there with his uncle, Unc Nunkie, who is known as the Silent One. Unc speaks so seldom that Ojo has learned to read whole sentences in a single word. On this day the cupboard holds nothing but dry bread, and the bread tree in the yard has only two loaves left, neither ripe.
Ojo reasons that no one starves in Oz, but you may have to go where the food is. His uncle, who rarely argues, finally stays awake all night thinking. At dawn he wakes the boy with one word, which is come. They latch the door and climb the mountain path toward the house of their nearest neighbor.
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What is The Patchwork Girl of Oz about?
A Munchkin boy named Ojo must find five magic ingredients to save his uncle, who has been turned to marble. He travels across Oz with a girl made from a patchwork quilt, a glass cat and a square animal called the Woozy.
Who is Scraps in The Patchwork Girl of Oz?
Scraps is a girl sewn from an old patchwork quilt and stuffed with cotton. She comes to life by magic powder and has too many brains, which makes her funny, brave and fond of silly rhymes and songs.
Is The Patchwork Girl of Oz part of a series?
Yes. L. Frank Baum wrote it as part of his Oz books, and it features characters like Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. You can still enjoy it on its own, since the story explains each person as they appear.
The author
L. Frank Baum
1856–1919 · American children's fantasy writer
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American author of children’s books. He was born in Chittenango, New York, and later lived in South Dakota, Chicago, and California. He published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and wrote thirteen further Oz novels. He died in Hollywood, California.
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