Ruggedo, the former Nome King, tries once again to conquer Oz. He secretly enters Oz bringing with him powerful magic in the form of a Munchkin boy names Kiki Aru who has learned the most powerful magic word of all. A word so powerful that even The Wizard of Oz and Glenda do not know it. Will Dorothy, Ozma, and their friends learn the secret to this magic word in time to save Oz? This lavishly illustrated edition has more than one hundred illustrations by John R. Neill.

Lyman Frank Baum (1856 - 1919), better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost works", 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts and many miscellaneous writings). His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).