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Lucky Bucky in Oz is the thirty-sixth installment in the Oz book series. It is the third Oz novel written by regular illustrator John R. Neill.


Plot[]

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Map from the book

Bucky Jones is aboard a tugboat in New York Harbor when the boiler blows up. He is soon blown into the Nonestic Ocean where he meets Davy Jones, a wooden whale. The pair take an undersea route to the Emerald City, and have many adventures along the way.


Uncle Sam[]

Neill's third book is the only Oz novel in which the American archetype of Uncle Sam appears as a (minor) character. His presence is doubtlessly linked to the book's publication during World War II. The original dust jacket of the first edition featured a note on the back, attributed to Bucky, urging the readers to buy war bonds, since the "Nazis and Japs are harder to beat than the Gnomes."


British edition[]

Lucky Bucky was published in Great Britain in 1945 by Hutchinson and Company - which is something of a curiosity, since most of the earlier Oz books had not appeared in British editions up to that time.

External links[]

The Final "Famous Forty" Books
John R. Neill 34. The Wonder City of Oz 35. The Scalawagons of Oz 36. Lucky Bucky in Oz
Jack Snow 37. The Magical Mimics in Oz 38. The Shaggy Man of Oz
Rachel Cosgrove 39. The Hidden Valley of Oz
Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw 40. Merry Go Round in Oz
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