Queen Zixi of Ix [SEP] illustrator
Queen Zixi of Ix
Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak, is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Frederick Richardson. It was originally serialized in the early 20th-century American children's magazine "St. Nicholas" from November 1904 to October 1905, and was published in book form later in 1905 by The Century Company. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the
Ix (Oz)
Ix is a fictional region in The Oz series of novels created by L. Frank Baum. It neighbors the Land of Oz and Noland, and is ruled by the centuries-old witch-queen Zixi.
History.
Ix is one of the settings featured in the 1905 novel "Queen Zixi of Ix" and its 1914 film adaptation, "The Magic Cloak of Oz". It is later visited in "The Silver Princess in Oz" where it is home to King Chillywalla of Boxwood