Tip wriggled around upon his stool and stared a while at the kettle, which was beginning to bubble. Magic lovers will delight in the presence of wizards and witches, potions and powders, tonics and spells. "If I remember rightly, the penalty for chopping leaves from the royal palm-tree is to be killed seven times and afterward imprisoned for life." The Land of Oz offers the same type of topsy-turvy logic that permeates all of the Oz books. Determined not to spend the rest of his life as a garden ornament, Tip took the pumpkin man he created and set off on an adventure. Mombi was not amused by Tip's practical joke, so she decided to concoct a spell to turn the boy into a marble statue. One day, Tip got the idea to startle Mombi, so he took a large pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, carved a face into it, then put it atop a body made of sticks and dressed in bright clothing. In the northern Land of Oz, there lived a boy called Tip who was reared by a haggard old woman named Mombi. Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.
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