The Royal Book of Oz: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Royal Book of Oz, credited to Ruth Plumly Thompson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Royal Book of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Read by Mark F. Smith. The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Wogglebug tells him that he has no family, so he goes to where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots." Then he vanishes from the face of Oz. Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion mount a search for their friend, but when that is successful, they will need to become a rescue party!

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Royal Book of Oz
• Author credits: Ruth Plumly Thompson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 5:06:41

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Oz

Track guide

1. 01 - Professor Wogglebug's Great Idea — 17:22
2. 02 - The Scarecrow's Family Tree — 14:47
3. 03 - Down the Magic Bean Pole — 11:44
4. 04 - Dorothy's Lonely Breakfast — 18:57
5. 05 - Sir Hokus of Pokes — 18:18
6. 06 - Singing Their Way Out of Pokes — 11:04
7. 07 - The Scarecrow is Hailed as Emperor — 16:05
8. 08 - The Scarecrow Studies the Silver Island — 18:09
9. 09 - Save Us With Your Magic, Exalted One! — 16:23
10. 10 - Princess Ozma and Betsy Bobbin Talk It Over — 3:58
11. 11 - Sir Hokus Overcometh the Giant — 11:00
12. 12 - Dorothy and Sir Hokus Come to Fix City — 20:30
13. 13 - Dancing Beds and the Roads That Unrolled — 14:46
14. 14 - Sons and Grandsons Greet the Scarecrow — 11:24
15. 15 - The Three Princes Plot to Undo the Emperor — 11:03
16. 16 - Dorothy and Her Guardians Meet New Friends — 13:15
17. 17 - Doubty & Camy Vanish Into Space — 5:30
18. 18 - Dorothy Finds the Scarecrow — 15:34
19. 19 - Planning to Fly From the Silver Island — 6:16
20. 20 - Dorothy Upsets the Ceremony of the Island — 13:41
21. 21 - The Escape From the Silver Island — 8:44
22. 22 - The Flight of the Parasol — 2:37
23. 23 - Safe at Last in the Land of Oz — 8:52
24. 24 - Homeward Bound to the Emerald City — 16:55

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