A review by emiged
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum

3.0

Another installment in the Oz series. I liked getting more back story on dear Nick Chopper, though I still haven't really figured out the timeline of events between the two dismemberments, courtships, intended weddings, rustings, and the witch's death. And I don't really get Nimmie Amee. Two tin men promise to marry her, don't show up on time, and she doesn't think to scour the forest for their rusted selves? It's not that big a forest, after all. Anyway, as is often the case, the sweethearts of yesteryear are not quite a perfect and wonderful as we remember them and the tin men are relieved to be released from their self-imposed duty to ensure Nimmie Amee's happiness.

We meet a few new friends (Woot the Wanderer, Captain Fyter, Ku-Klip) and a few new enemies (Mrs. Yoop, the hippogyraf). They travel to a part of the Munchkin country we haven't seen before and we meet the Loons and Tommy Kwikstep and we get to see old friends Jinjur and Polychrome again. Just another day in the life of the land of Oz.

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