Sky Island

By Baum, L. Frank

Book Id: WPLBN0002953654
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File Size: 163.73 MB
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Sky Island
Author:	Baum, L. Frank
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children, Adventure
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Sky Island; by L. Frank Baum
Historic Publication Date:	1912
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Frank Baum, B. L. (1912). Sky Island. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in 1910 and the following year he introduced Trot and Cap’n Bill in The Sea Fairies. In Sky Island, they journey to an island in the sky by means of an enchanted umbrella belonging to Button Bright, a character who first appeared in The Road to Oz (1909). The trio is then captured by the Boolaroo of the Blues, a monarch who is both comical and dangerous, escape to the country of the “Pinks”, and eventually regain the magic umbrella and return back to earth. This is one of Baum’s best fantasy books and contains enough not-so-veiled commentary on race and politics to interest adults as well. However, it (and The Sea Fairies) did not sell as well as the Oz books and Baum resumed writing them in 1913. He subsequently brought Trot and Cap’n Bill to Oz in 1915 in The Scarecrow of Oz. (Summary by Judy Bieber)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Children, Adventure, Fantasy