Rinkitink in Oz is the tenth book in the Land of Oz series written by L. Frank Baum. It was published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist John R. Neill. It is notable that most of the action takes place outside of Oz, and no character from Oz appears in the book until its climax; this is due to Baum having originally written most of the book as a fantasy novel unrelated to his Oz books over ten years earlier in 1905.
The book was dedicated to the author's newborn grandson Robert Alison Baum, the first child of the author's second son, Robert Stanton Baum.
The complete full title of the novel is: Rinkitink in Oz: Wherein is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles that Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz.
This novel is an example of how authors sometimes don't meticulously plan their subsequent novels like some fanatics and literary analysts like to believe. And sometimes the author really didn't intend the deep interpretations we apply to their writing. Baum simply was struggling for money and the demand for more Oz books basically forced him to rework this once independent novel into the series. So if you're still in school, and your teacher or your professor claims authors do not leave anything to chance, you may spout this pearl of information and explain that sometimes authors simply just need to make money and are gifted at telling stories, so maybe the rock on the porch is simply a rock.
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