Chapter summaries

The Oz Series chapter by chapter

This encyclopedia covers chapters 1 to 100 of the story and shows the world as it stands at chapter 100, so it contains spoilers up to that point. To read it spoiler free, one chapter at a time, open the interactive codex.

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Chapters 90–99

Chapter 90 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 9 entities
A shaggy man approaches Dorothy at the farm and asks the road to Butterfield. Dorothy, noting his pleasant twinkling eye despite his shaggy appearance, begins giving complicated…
Chapter 91 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 6 entities
The seventh road proves good, curving through green meadows and fields of daisies and buttercups past groups of shady trees, with no houses and no living creatures for some…
Chapter 92 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 19 entities
Button-Bright willingly takes the shaggy man's hand because of the Love Magnet, which caused the boy to love him at once, and the party sets off with Dorothy on one side and Toto…
Chapter 93 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 14 entities
King Dox studies Button-Bright with amusement while the boy stares back, neither fox nor child having encountered the other's like; Button-Bright, never told about fairies, is…
Chapter 94 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 13 entities
Toto, now allowed to run free, is glad to bark at birds and chase butterflies as the party travels through charming country of wild-flower fields and leafy groves that contain no…
Chapter 95 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 15 entities
At noon the travelers open the Fox-King's luncheon basket, finding roasted turkey with cranberry sauce and bread and butter; the shaggy man cuts up the turkey with his…
Chapter 96 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 18 entities
The travelers find the houses of Dunkiton all low, square, brick, and whitewashed inside and out, placed haphazardly rather than in regular streets, which puzzles strangers. The…
Chapter 97 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 10 entities
About mid-morning the travelers ascend a long hill that suddenly drops into a pretty valley where they spot a small house by the roadside—the first house they have seen—and hasten…
Chapter 98 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 13 entities
The country grows less pretty as a rocky plain covered with barren hills appears before the travelers, who near some low mountains as the once-smooth road turns rough and uneven.…
Chapter 99 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 10 entities
The shaggy man, uninjured after being struck on the breast and left shoulder by two thrown Scoodler heads, rises and urges his companions forward. The Scoodlers respond by hurling…

Chapters 100–100

Chapter 100 The Road to Oz: The Shaggy Man's Journey to Ozma's Birthday · 17 entities
As the travelers trudge along rough terrain, all are hungry and thirsty, having eaten only apples since breakfast, so their steps lag. Crossing a barren hill, they see a line of…