Talk to the odd-looking man hanging around outside. Talk to Hank the donkey, then return to your office. Look at the map of Oz, then leave this area. Talk to Tik Tok, then show him the picture of Anzel. Go outside and click on the Gump stand to travel. Pick up the key from the table, then use this on the file cabinet and you will get your journal and a new client. Talk to Lion and you will eventually end up back at your office. Try each option to escape from the rope, then call for help when you get the option. Old Magda reforms, and Imogene gets her tour of the Emerald City.Pick up the crowbar and use it on the small wooden door. The antidote is obtained, and Dorothy is restored to her normal size. Once recovered, however, Imogene supplies the golden milk that restores Magda too. Saving the old witch can lead to the antidote for Dorothy's giantism but Dorothy finds she cannot allow her bovine companion to die. They rescue Old Magda and Imogene the cow from being buried alive then they learn that they can revive one or the other, but not both. In the end, Dorothy and her friends face a choice. Dorothy falls prey to giantism herself and endures a subterranean ordeal before she, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma resolve the problem and restore the normal order of Oz. Magda created a giantism potion to make her gardening more productive and her life easier - but lost control of it giant moles, eating the giant vegetables, become a pest to all and sundry. The task isn't easy the trio endure a thunderstorm and a near-crash-landing during a balloon flight. With the help of the Wizard, Dorothy begins to unravel the mystery of the giant garden, and to follow the trail of a would-be witch called Old Magda who is its cause. Imogene talks Dorothy into accepting her companionship (the cow wants to see the Emerald City). (Imogene the cow originated in The Wizard of Oz, the 1902 stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.) In a crisis, Imogene can yield a healing golden milk and in the course of the tale, she gives whipped cream and ice cream too. When I get excited, which doesn't happen often, I give butter. When I'm thinking hard and get into a brown study I give chocolate milk. When I'm content I give regular plain old milk. Outside the garden, she crosses the Munchkin Country and meets new friends, principally a white-and-purple cow named Imogene, who gives varying dairy products depending upon her mood: Dorothy sets out for the Emerald City, climbing a landscape of mountainous produce. The farmhouse is hemmed in by a vegetable wall. Overnight, the couple's vegetable garden grows to enormous size, with giant beets, broccoli, peppers, and watermelons, and heads of cabbage twenty feet high. (Inhabitants of Oz do not age, unless they want to.) They have acquired a small farm in the Munchkin Country with magical aids designed by the Wizard of Oz, their farm labor is much less demanding than in the Kansas of their past.ĭorothy comes to pay her first visit to the new farm - but encounters an unprecedented problem. At the start of The Giant Garden of Oz, the couple, "after eighty-some years of a life of luxury," have decided to return to farming. In his sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, Baum had brought the two characters from the mundane world of Kansas to the Emerald City, where they enjoyed a blissful retirement. Temporally, Shanower places his novel at the end of the twentieth century he takes up the story of Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, the surrogate parents of Dorothy Gale. As its title indicates, the novel is a volume in the ever-growing literature on the Land of Oz, written by L. The Giant Garden of Oz is a novel written and illustrated by Eric Shanower, first published in 1993 by Emerald City Press, a division of Books of Wonder.