Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies
1912
Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies
1912
A girl from the California coast, a one-legged sailor with a kind heart, and a mysterious boy who carries a magic umbrella are transported to a literal island floating in the sky. This is L. Frank Baum at his most inventive: a world where the ocean below is just a memory, where the inhabitants are divided by color into Blue and Pink, and where a petty tyrant called the Boolooroo rules through absurd punishments that transform the disobedient into various objects. What begins as a whimsical adventure becomes something sharper as Trot, Cap'n Bill, and Button-Bright must outwit a dictator, navigate a strange land of eccentric characters, and find their way back to earth. Baum wrote in 1912, when America was still drunk on possibility, and Sky Island captures that giddy faith in the impossible. It's a book for readers who loved Oz but want something stranger, who believe that the best fantasies are the ones that make you look up at the sky and wonder what's up there.
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