The Forbidden Fountain of Oz [SEP] illustrator
The Forbidden Fountain of Oz
The Forbidden Fountain of Oz is a 1980 children's novel written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and her daughter Lauren Lynn Mcgraw (or McGraw Wagner), and illustrated by Dick Martin. As its title indicates, the book is one entry in the long-running series of Oz books written by L. Frank Baum and his many successors.
The authors.
The McGraws, mother and daughter, wrote an earlier Oz book, "Merry Go Round in Oz", published in 1963. In
and yellow. Lauren McGraw provided the book with a map that situates the Winkie Country in the western quadrant of Oz, as in Baum's original scheme.
Forbidden fountain.
The forbidden fountain of the title is the same created by Baum in his sixth Oz book, "The Emerald City of Oz" — an enchanted fountain that purges the memories of all who drink its Water of Oblivion. In that book, the fountain provides the resolution of the plot conflict, through which the invading hordes of a barbarian army