When Mombi brings Jack to life with her Powder of Life so she can replace Tip with him (planning to turn the boy into a marble statue), Tip escapes with Jack and heads for the Emerald City. The sequel begins when an orphan boy named Tip living with a wicked witch named Mombi makes a man by carving a grinning face into a pumpkin, sticking it onto a wooden frame, dressing it in old clothes, and naming it Jack Pumpkinhead. When I finally read the second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), I found it to be delightful from start to finish, at least as imaginative and much funnier than the famous first. Frank Baum were pale iterations of the first, I'd never read any of them. I'd read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) several times and had watched the Wizard of Oz (1939) movie countless times, but, assuming that the other Oz books by L.
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