L Frank Baum

The Sea Fairies Illustrated L Frank Baum

The Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written via way of means of L. Frank Baum, illustrated via way of means of John R. Neill and posted in 1911 via way of means of the Reilly & Britton Company, the writer of Baum's collection of Oz books. Mayer Griffiths, nicknamed Trot, or every now and then Tiny Trot, is a bit girlWho lives on the coast of southern California. Her father is the captain of aCruising schooner, and her consistent partner is Capon Bill Wheedles, a retired sailor with a timber leg. (Cap'n Bill have been Trot's father's skipper and Charlie Griffiths has been his mate, earlier than the coincidence that took the older man's leg.) Trot and Cap'n Bill spend lots of their days roaming the seashores close to home, or . One day, Trot desires that she should see a mermaid; her want is overheard and granted the subsequent day. The mermaids give an explanation for to Trot, and the distressed Cap'n Bill, that they may be benevolent fairies; after they provide Trot a hazard to pay a go to to their land in mermaid form, Trot is enthusiastic, and Bill is simply too dependable to let her burst off without him. So starts their sojourn many of the sea fairies. They see amazingpoints of interest within side the land of Queen Aquafina and King Anko (which includes an octopus who is mortified to analyze that he is the image of the Standard Oil Company). They additionally come across a villain known as Zog the Magician, a great hybrid of man, animal, and fish, one of the only a few, in reality, irredeemable, pure-evil characters in Baum's writings. Zag and his sea devils seize them and hold them, prisoner. The protagonists find out that many sailors notion to have been drowned have truly been captured and enslaved via way of means of Zag. Trot and Cap'nBill live on Zog's challenges and the villain is in the end defeated via way of means of the forces of good. Trot and Capon Bill are again to human form, secure and dry after their undersea adventure.