tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80804414424050624352024-02-18T23:38:20.900-08:00Balloon to OzThis is a blog introducing the second book in the series THE HIDDEN CHRONICLES OF OZ.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023306632556191652noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080441442405062435.post-51751527701344507342013-03-08T14:37:00.002-08:002013-03-08T14:37:54.689-08:00The Balloon that never got to Oz<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Some balloons get there, some don't.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pat McLarkey, even when a 17-year old, knew that you shouldn't put up a balloon in a heavy wind. ( This is told in <i>Balloon to Oz,</i> by Leo Moser and Carol Nelson. copyright 2012. )</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That was well before Pat sailed of to Oz, eventually to become the (humbug) Wonderful Wizard of Oz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eventually this star-crossed balloon ended up impaled on a nearby fountain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now when our Pat sailed off (no fault of his own) he was almost impaled when landing, by the spire atop the Jade Palace in the Emerald City. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But Pat's balloon had traveled not a few feet, but for several days and to Erdavon, an alternate world of which Oz was but a part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;">the second book in the
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">THE HIDDEN CHRONICLES OF OZ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">by Leo Moser and Carol Nelson</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(This series of stories follows
the famous book of L. Frank Baum,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">Let us begin, not in Kansas in
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Eight-year-old Jeremy smiled at his great-grandmother across the
breakfast table, “The way you tell about Oz, Gran-gran, makes lots more sense
to me. More’n the Judy Garland movie, more’n some of the later books by that
Mr. Baum.” <o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Not all is
exactly how <i>I tell it</i>,” Dorothy responded. “Remember the book I
read you this weekend was written by Pat McLarkey, the so-called Wonderful
Wizard himself, telling how he got to Oz.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Balloon
to Oz: Pinhead to Potentate</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “I’ve read
all the old Oz books, you know. Some stuff is hard to figure. In one
book the Wizard says he invented the word ‘OZ,’ an’ that he even had the
Emerald City built. That just doesn’t track. An’ he supposedly had all
those extra initials that added up to P.I.N.H.E.A.D. People don’t have that
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Things get
mixed up when retold. Mr. Baum never went to Oz himself.<u1:p></u1:p>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Not like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>you, G</i>ran-gran,” he
grinned. “I'm not complaining. I like it just fine when you tell all your
Oz stories just like you were the real Dorothy, ‘cuz your name was Dorothy
then, an’ you lived on a farm in Kansas way back then. Like her second trip to
Oz to find that tintype.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Your<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>second trip I mean.” He grinned
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Even
though I’m in my eighties, my name is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>still</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dorothy, you know. And my maiden name<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Gayle. Mr. Baum misspelled it, made it
Gale, guess he thought of the wind that carried me off to Oz. But you don’t
have to accept my stories as fact just now. Listen to them and remember. There
are signs you may need this knowledge later on.”<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> “You sure
make it all seem mysterious, Gran-gran. But I like mysteries.”<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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“Guess Mom will be back when I get home
from school. Wish she wasn’t gone so much, but you’re our best baby sitter of all,
Gran-gran. I’m learning lots about Oz from your stories, about the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>real</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Oz I mean.” He smiled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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in the series</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Mysterious
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