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[]
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 |