Ozma of Oz is the book in Frank Baum's Oz book series. It records the adventures of Oz with
Dorothy Gale of Kansas the Yellow Hen the Scarecrow the Tin Woodman Tiktok the Cowardly
Lion and the Hungry Tiger and other characters. It is the first Oz narrative in which the
majority of the events occur outside of Oz. Only the final two chapters are set in Oz. This
conveys a slight change in theme: in the first book Oz is the perilous land through which
Dorothy must make her way back to Kansas in the third Oz is the book's conclusion and goal.
Dorothy's wish to return home is not as strong as it was in the first book and it is her
uncle's need for her rather than her own that compels her to do so.
