200px, Cover of ''Lucky Bucky in Oz''.
''Lucky Bucky in Oz'' (
1942) is the thirty-sixth in the series of
Oz books created by
L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third and last written and illustrated solely by
John R. Neill. (He wrote a fourth, ''
The Runaway in Oz'', but died before illustrating it.)
Bucky Jones is aboard a tugboat in
New York Harbor
New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in ...
when the boiler blows up. He is soon blown into the
Nonestic Ocean
The Land of Oz is a magical country introduced in the 1900 children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Oz consists of four vast quadrants, the Gillikin Country in the north, Quadl ...
where he meets Davy Jones, a wooden whale.
[ Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; pp. 52-3, 132.] The pair take an undersea route to the Emerald City, and have many adventures along the way.
References
Oz (franchise) books
1942 American novels
1942 fantasy novels
1942 children's books
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