Description
L. Frank Baum is more popular through works such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but he also wrote other children’s fantasy books that were popular in his era. One of such books is The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People – a nonsensical fairy tale about a magical land and strange adventures.
The land of Mo, or the Phunniland, is a strange land where the inhabitants do not need to work at all, since all they need grows on trees. There are rivers of chocolate flowing everywhere, and the creatures residing in Mo can even pick up clothes from trees. But what happens when a purple dragon starts to eat all the caramels from trees? The Monarch of Mo goes on to fight the purple dragon, gets his head bitten off only to replace it with a wooden one and then back with the real one again. This is what you can expect to read from one of the fourteen chapters which are relatively unrelated, as each chapter deals with a specific adventure or surprise.
Baum manages to create a story that is not intriguing in itself, but it is hilarious to read. Characters travelling to the Land of Monkeys where only Monkey is spoken, dogs that are kicked by the Monarch when there are no actual dogs living in Mo – these are the type of stories that can be found in The Surprising Adventures. This book will certainly delight the little audience with the fun characters and unpredictable stories, and even adults may have something hilarious to read about, as this great book comes from the master that created the Wizard of Oz and other beloved characters.
Product ID: 9781775421757
Sku: 9781775421757
