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Queen Zixi of IX: The Story of the Magic Cloak (Thorndike Classics) [Large Print] (Board book)
by L. Frank Baum (Author) "The fairies assembled one moonlit night in a pretty clearing of the ancient forest of Burzee ..." (more)
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  • Board book: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (3 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786265000
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786265008
  • Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 16.1 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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A magic cloak is an important item to a peasant boy who becomes king by being the forty-seventh person to enter the city after the old ruler dies.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The best of L. Frank Baum's non-Oz stories, 18 Dec 2003
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Queen Zixi of Ix, or the Story of the Magic Cloak (Paperback)
L. Frank Baum considered "Queen Zixi of Ix or the Story of the Magic Cloak" to be the best of his non-Oz fantasies for children and there is certainly no reason to disagree with his self-assessment. The fairies assembled one moonlit night in a pretty clearing of the ancient forest of Burzee to weave the magic cloak. When the old king of Noland dies without any relatives to take the throne a peasant boy named Bud becomes the guy when he is the forty-seventh person to enter the city and the magic cloak that allows wishes to come true becomes very important to him in this 1905 story. Bud has to be king, whether he wants to or not, which means his sister is now Princess Fluff. Dispensing justice and trying to deal with his Aunt Rivette, who feels the new king owes everything he now has to her, are minor problems for King Bud when Queen Zixi and the armies of Ix invade Noland. To make things worse, the magic cloak is stolen.

One of the things I like about "Queen Zixi of Ix" is that it sounds like a traditional fairey tale adventures, even more so than the Oz books, in which Baum certainly created his own fantasy universe. More importantly, characters manage to get beyond the limits of their stereotypes with surprising results, which is certainly a laudable thing to do in telling stories to children. Of course, this only cements Baum's reputation in the realm of American children's literature, but then as anybody knows who has gotten beyond "The Wizard of Oz" Baum was deservedly known as Father Goose. Check out Baum's "The Sea Fairies" and "Sky Island" as well if you like this one, which has 90 illustrations on its 231 pages.

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