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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
November 5, 2015
Pages
152
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Easy Fiction
ISBN-13
9781519123053
ISBN-10
1519123051
Dimensions
0.35 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$7.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Capân Bill, a sailor with a wooden peg-leg, and his friend, a little girl named Trot, set out from California on a calm day for a short ride in their row-boat. The calm day suddenly turns dark and stormy and Capân Bill and Trot are washed overboard and are carried by mermaids (referred to but not seen) to a cave where they meet an ostrich-like flying creature called an Ork. Flying on the Orkâs back, the Ork, Capân Bill and Trot strain to arrive at an island where a grim man calling himself Pessim the Observer points out that the Ork should not have eaten the light lavender berries growing on the island. The light lavender berries cause a person to shrink, and the dark purple berries cause a person to grow. Once the Ork resumes normal size, Capân Bill and Trot leave the island to escape the Observerâs negative attitudeâwhich drove the people in his homeland to exile him here in the first place. To reduce the load on the Ork, Capân Bill and Trot each eat a light lavender berry so they are small enough to carry in Trotâs bonnet. Flying away from the island, Capân Bill, Trot, and the Ork alight in the land of Mo, one of Baumâs non-Oz creations. They meet the Bumpy Man, who specializes in serving sugar and molasses and has some of their appearance too. After dining on Mo rain (lemonade) and Mo snow (popcorn), they run into Button Bright, the boy from The Road to Oz who has gotten lost again. Capân Bill calls down some of the native birds (who, like all birds in fairy countries, can talk back) and offers them the dark purple berries to make them grow large enough to carry himself, Trot, and Button-Bright (for the Ork can fly) to the land of Oz across the Deadly Desert to the north of them. When they make it across the desert, Button-Bright, Capân Bill, and Trot are set down in a field and the Ork leaves them to find his own country, which he got lost from on a routine flight.
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