Buratino in the Emerald City (Russian: Буратино в Изумрудном городе) is a "Magic Land" novel written and illustrated by Leonid Vladimirsky, the artist who illustrated Alexander Volkov's Oz-derived Russian works. The book was published in 1996.
Early in his career as a book illustrator, Vladimirsky drew pictures for an edition of Alexei Tolstoy's The Little Golden Key, which is an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinnochio in which the puppet-boy is renamed "Buratino." Decades later, when Vladimirsky came to compose a book in the Volkov tradition, he brought Tolstoy's Buratino to Volkov's Emerald City. The result is quadruply derivative: from Collodi via Tolstoy, and from Baum via Volkov.
In keeping with is source material, Vladimirsky employs puppets as characters. For a comparable incursion of puppets into Oz, consider Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Rundelstone of Oz. For real-life Oz puppetry, see: Jean Gros.
| Sergei Sukhinov's Magic Land books | ||||
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| Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Gingema's Daughter 2. The Fairy of the Emerald City 3. The Sorceress Villina's Secret 4. The Sorcerer's Sword 5. The Eternally Youthful Stella 6. Parcelius the Alchemist 7. Battle in the Underground Land 8. King Midgety 9. The Sorcerer from Atlantis 10. The Knights of Light and Darkness | |||
| Fairy Tales of the Emerald City | 1. Corina the Lazy Sorceress 2. Corina and the Ogre 3. The Sorceress Villina's Ward 4. The Little Dragon 5. The Crystal Island 6. Corina and the Magic Rhino 7. Three in the Enchanted Forest 8. The Black Fog 9. Master of the Winged Monkeys Prequel: Goodwin the Great and Terrible | |||