Cats Have Nine Lives: Mentioned when Eureka is put on trial for eating Ozma's pet piglet the penalty if found guilty was death, even if she had to be killed nine times.

Other Mangaboos end up burned alive or kicked by Jim the Cab-horse.

Bloodless Carnage: The Wizard slices the Mangaboo sorcerer in half with a sword, but his two halves just fall to the floor bloodlessly, and need to be 're-planted' in order to grow two sorcerers.

Beneath the Earth: Where the majority of the novel takes place.

It's just too bad all of them are vain, xenophobic, and outright evil.

Beauty Is Bad: All of the Mangaboos are described as being beautiful.

The residents have to keep eating Dama Fruit just to remain alive.

Bears Are Bad News: The bears of the Valley of Voe are man-eaters and invisible.

Artistic License – Animal Care: Dorothy travels with her kitten in a bird cage.

Even the Valley of Voe view them as dreadful creatures. And when they ask the Princess how they can leave, the Mangaboos turn violent. In Chapter 6, Dorothy states she doesn't like them, the Wizard then mentions they're cold-blooded, and Zeb says they have no hearts, and thus, cannot feel love. Always Chaotic Evil: The Mangaboos are highly xenophobic and willing to execute outsiders for petty reasons.Not to be confused with Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, the 2017 animated series. Very little of the book takes place in Oz until the later chapters. They are soon joined by the Wizard himself, who coincidentally falls into the same crack via his hot air balloon, and the group must escape the wrath of the Mangaboos, and later, the various other perils and hostile creatures that live under the Earth's surface, while coping with the bizarre way the laws of physics apply the further to the center of the Earth one gets.

The plot of the book begins with Dorothy visiting her cousin Zeb in San Francisco when an earthquake hits and she, her kitten Eureka, and Zeb's horse and buggy fall into a crack in the Earth and slowly descend into a city populated by the vegetable-like Mangaboo people. He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales. Baum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz (1907). It was published on Jand reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L.