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The Magical Mimics in Oz
''The Magical Mimics in Oz'' (1946) is the thirty-seventh in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors,〔John Neill's ''The Runaway in Oz'' was intended to be the thirty-seventh Oz book, but its publication was delayed until 1995.〕 and the first written by Jack Snow. It was illustrated by Frank G. Kramer. The book entered the Public Domain in the United States, when its copyright was not renewed as required.〔US Copyright Office. http://www.copyright.gov/〕
==A new "Royal Historian"==
Jack Snow was the fourth official chronicler or "Royal Historian" of Oz, after Baum himself, Ruth Plumly Thompson, and long-time Oz illustrator John R. Neill. Snow made a conscious attempt to return to Baum's inspiration for Oz; in both of the Oz books he wrote, ''The Magical Mimics'' and ''The Shaggy Man of Oz'' (1949), he deliberately avoided using any characters introduced by Thompson or Neill.〔David L. Greene and Dick Martin, ''The Oz Scrapbook'', New York, Random House, 1977; p. 79.〕 Snow crammed ''Magical Mimics'' with Baum's characters, sometimes presented in long rosters.〔Jack Snow, ''The Magical Mimics in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1946; pp. 32, 179-86, 237.〕 Little room was left for original characters; Snow's main creations were his Mimic villains,〔Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; pp. 175, 226.〕 plus the fairy Ozana, her kitten Felina, and her wooden puppet people the Hi-Los.〔''Who's Who in Oz'', pp. 67, 94, 150-1.〕
Snow's approach was controversial among fans of Thompson's and Neill's works; yet it had the virtue of workability. Prior to their acceptance of Snow as an Oz author, publisher Reilly & Lee had solicited veteran children's-book writer Mary Dickerson Donahey for the job. Dickerson Donahey turned the publisher down, however, since she judged that "it would be too much of a struggle to keep track of all the characters and plots in the series."〔Jack Snow, ''The Magical Mimics in Oz'', with an Afterword by Michael Gessel, Kinderhook, IL, International Wizard of Oz Club, 1990; Afterword, p. 246.〕
Snow drew upon a range of Baum's books for hints and inspirations. A talking Toto, for example, is important in Snow's narrative; Baum first made Toto speak at the end of ''Tik-Tok of Oz''. Yet the work that Snow relied upon most heavily for ''Magical Mimics'' was Baum's sixth Oz book, ''The Emerald City of Oz''.
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