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He lived with Dorothy even when she was invited to New York City to get her books published. Toto appeared in Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return. Toto is a German Shepherd in NBC's television series Emerald City. Initially a police dog that was in the police car Dorothy retreated to during the initial tornado that sent her to Oz, he is ...
The Shaggy Man is a kind old wanderer who is dressed in rags. He has a chivalrous instinct to protect children from monsters. He first appears in The Road to Oz (1909) as Dorothy's protector, and plays major roles in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) and Tik-Tok of Oz (1914). He is similar to Captain Bill Weedles, another "fatherly protector ...
Ripper, Marjorie Dursley's pet dog in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Sharik, the astray dog who undergoes a transformation surgery in Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov; Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector; Toto, Dorothy's dog in The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The novel retells L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the eyes of Dorothy's dog Toto. [2] The book was adapted into a musical feature film with Alex Timbers directing the project. As of December 2024, the film has not been released yet.
The Winged Monkeys started as free creatures living in the jungles of the fictional Land of Oz from the children's fiction novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.They were a rather carefree but mischievous bunch, until their king, as a prank, tossed Quelala, a richly dressed human friend of theirs into a deep river, ruining his velvet costume.
A 1906 contract between Baum and his publisher called for new Oz books at two-year intervals between 1907 and 1911. In fact, Baum accelerated this schedule, producing Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz only a year after the previous book. The effect of this effort on the quality of the resulting work can only be a matter of speculation; but ...
Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) is a novel by Kirsten Bakis first published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of the year in 1997, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the Village Voice. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. It has been ...
Dorothy's characterization in the 1939 film is more of a damsel in distress, somewhat unlike the adventurous, forthright and bold Dorothy of the books, and as one of the first movies to be filmed in Technicolor, the director had the color of the famous magic slippers changed from silver to red because the Ruby slippers were more visually ...