American Fairy Tales - 1901
The Queen of Quok is the third story in the American Fairy Tale book published in 1901.
This story is about so many things from wasting the family fortune to saving the day through the use of an unknown wizard/fairy called the Slave of the Bedstead. I'd imagine Baum would name them something different today like the bed keeper fairy or wizard. The guy is really there to grant wishes for the king through the use of matches and a book with a poem on the cover. This is another interesting yet not as interesting as the Wizard of Oz. Everything ends up ok for the boy king but the trip getting there is a little jaded.
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Information regarding the book from booshop.org:
"Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author widely known for his children's books. Baum was born Chittenango, New-York into a devout Methodiste family He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. "Lyman" is the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank".American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories published in 1901. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of Baum's work, in Oz or out. With ironic or nonsensical morals attached to their ends, their tone is more satirical, glib, and tongue-in-cheek than is usual in children's stories; the serialization in newspapers for adult readers was appropriate for the materials. "The Magic Bon Bons" was the most popular of the tales, judging by number of reprints."