Patchwork Girl of Oz (version 2)

The Patchwork Girl of Oz finds L. Frank Baum at his most inventive. When a curious powder brings a rag doll stitched from quilted scraps to life, she discovers an irrepressible joy in being alive - and a determination to help her creator's nephew. Ojo needs six impossible ingredients to save his uncle, and only the Patchwork Girl volunteers to fetch them. Their journey through Oz is aided and hindered by the Glass Cat, a vain creature with pink brains who refuses to stop admiring herself in mirrors. Together they encounter Baum's most wonderfully odd creations - a hungry Signed Man, mysterious transformations, and dangers that test both courage and laughter. The Patchwork Girl's optimism never wavers, even when she begins literally losing pieces of herself. This is Oz at its finest: strange, gentle, absurd, and utterly beguiling. It captures the pure delight of a world where anything can happen and everyone, even a girl made of patches, can matter.