History Literature / ThePatchworkGirlOfOz

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* SillyReasonForWar: The Hoppers and the Horners are at war because the Horners made a joke that the Horner's have less of an "understanding"...because their race only has one leg to stand on.

A [[Film/ThePatchworkGirlOfOz silent film adaptation]] was released in 1914, with Baum's involvement. A direct sequel, the 27th book in the series ''Literature/OjoInOz'', was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and features Ojo’s further adventures.

The hero of the tale is a Munchkin boy named "Ojo the Unlucky" who lives with his Unc Nunkie in a remote part of the Munchkin Country. They have noting to eat but bread, and there are only two loaves growing on their bread tree. They visit their only neighbors, Dr. Pipt and his wife Margolotte. There, they learn of the doctor's magic. Margolotte has used the Powder of Life (as seen in [[Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz the second Oz book]]) to animate a glass cat named Bungle, and she plans to use the Powder to provide herself a servant. She makes a dummy out of a crazy quilt, and selects doses of "Obedience," "Amiability," and "Truth" from her jars of "Brain Furniture." Ojo surreptitiously supplements the brain mixture with doses of all the other available possibilities: "Cleverness," "Poesy," "Self-Reliance," etc. When the Patchwork Girl is animated with the Powder of Life, she is more of everything than anybody expected.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Whenever something goes wrong, Ojo will state that the reason for the misfortune is that ''"I'm Ojo the Unlucky."''

* ShaggyDogStory: The characters journey to find the ingredients for a magical concoction that will save two people who have been petrified. They find all of them but one, which should have been the easiest; the wing of a yellow butterfly. But the lands on which yellow butterflies live are ruled by the Tin Man, and he won't let a butterfly come to any harm, rendering the quest pointless. And then Glinda just fixes the people by magic anyway, making it even more so. The characters even met with Dorothy and Ozma earlier on, and they didn't even suggest this possibility, or mention the Tin Man's feelings about living things.
** Maybe they just thought the Tin Man should speak for himself, they were his butterflies.
*** Also, Glinda didn't undo the statue spell until it was clear it couldn't be broken the other way without hurting any butterflies.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Honey bees. Woozy got into quite a bit of trouble with the Munchkin beekeepers because of this.