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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
This is for readers who love fairylands crowded with odd creatures, quests built from a strange recipe, and songs and wordplay on every page. It suits children and grown-ups alike.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A hungry boy and the Crooked Magician
- Extra brains and a terrible accident
- Strange lodgings, a noisy machine and silly advisers
- A square Woozy and a shaggy rescuer
- A stolen clover and a gentle prison
- Searching the south for three more things
- What the story says about luck and heart
Who’s who
- OjoA gentle Munchkin boy called the Unlucky who sets out to save his uncle and learns to see his own luck.
- Unc NunkieOjo's silent uncle, who speaks as little as he can and loves the boy he raised alone in the forest.
- ScrapsThe Patchwork Girl, stitched from a quilt, full of rhymes and courage, who wants to see the world and help her friend.
- Dr. PiptThe Crooked Magician, who makes the Powder of Life and wants to bring back his wife.
- The Glass CatA vain, transparent cat named Bungle who boasts of her pink brains and ruby heart.
- The WoozyA square beast who flashes fire from his eyes and takes pride in keeping his word.
- The Shaggy ManA kind, shaggy wanderer who guides the travelers and knows the tricks of the road to the Emerald City.
- The ScarecrowA wise, stuffed friend of Dorothy who joins the quest and admires Scraps more than anyone.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz
by L. Frank Baum · 1913
A boy and a girl sewn from a quilt set out to gather strange ingredients in Oz.
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A boy stands on a stool and searches an empty cupboard. There is no butter and no jam, only bread, and the two loaves on the bread tree outside are not yet ripe.
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A hungry boy and the Crooked Magician
Ojo lives with his uncle, Unc Nunkie, in a round house in the Blue Forest. The cupboard is bare, and the bread tree holds only two loaves that are not yet ripe. Unc says so little that Ojo has learned to hear a whole meaning in one word.
At dawn the old man wakes the boy with one word, which is come. They latch the door, share the last of the bread and climb the mountain path to the house of Dr. Pipt, the Crooked Magician. Margolotte, his kind wife, greets Ojo as Ojo the Unlucky. She serves a splendid meal and says that if Ojo can lose the Un from his name, his luck will change.
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Baum, L. Frank. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-patchwork-girl-of-oz.
Baum, L. F. (2026). The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-patchwork-girl-of-oz (Original work published 1913)
Baum, L. Frank. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-patchwork-girl-of-oz.
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What is The Patchwork Girl of Oz about?
It follows a Munchkin boy named Ojo, who sets out with a living patchwork girl to find five odd ingredients for a magic charm that can save his uncle and a kind woman turned to marble.
Who is Scraps in The Patchwork Girl of Oz?
Scraps is a girl made from an old patchwork quilt and stuffed with cotton, brought to life with the Powder of Life. She is cheerful, rhymes constantly and has a mind full of mixed brains.
Do I need to read the other Oz books first?
No. The story introduces its people and places as the travelers meet them, and the prologue sets the scene. You can start here and enjoy the quest, the characters and the jokes.
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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