The Crooked Magician's Recipe
AN OZLAND ADVENTURE
Book 2 from the Classic Adventure Line
[COVER IMAGE Coming Soon!]
The Patchwork Girl has just come to life. The Crooked Magician is in trouble. And Ojo the Unlucky has a quest.
Uncle Nunkie and Margolotte are frozen as marble statues — and the only way to save them is to collect four magical ingredients scattered across the Land of Oz. Some are rare. Some are dangerous. And at least one of them is illegal.
You will meet the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Glass Cat, Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good, and the great Wizard of Oz himself.
But your most important companion? The Patchwork Girl — stuffed with cotton, covered in scraps of a hundred-year-old quilt, brought to life with just a little too much cleverness — who is impossible to predict, impossible to silence, and absolutely impossible not to love.
14 endings. 5 levels. One impossible quest.
Can you find all five paths to Ozland glory — and earn the title of Ultimate Ozland Hero?
What Makes This Book Different
This is the only IF/THEN title with a genuine object-collection quest built into its structure. Ojo must gather four ingredients to reverse the Crooked Magician's mistake — but Oz law strictly forbids harming any living creature, and at least one ingredient can't be gathered without breaking the rules. The quest creates real ethical tension: how far will you go to save someone you love?
The five-level ending system is also unique in the catalog. Level 5 — Ultimate Ozland Hero — is a meta-achievement earned by finding all five Level 4 endings across multiple reads. No other IF/THEN book rewards replay this way.
And then there's Scraps. The Patchwork Girl sings spontaneous poetry, argues with the Glass Cat about aesthetics, refuses to take anything seriously, and turns out to be considerably more clever than anyone intended her to be. She is, in a word, magnificent.
What's Inside
- 14 endings across 5 achievement levels
- 36 decision points
- Level 5 meta-achievement for finding all best endings
- A genuine quest with four magical ingredients to collect
- The full cast of Oz: Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Wizard, Glinda, Princess Ozma
- Based on the original by L. Frank Baum
- 5×8 paperback, approx. 160 pages
[INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION Coming soon!]
Who This Is For
Readers ages 10–13 and anyone who has ever wished the Land of Oz had more choices in it. The prose is warm and fanciful, the moral stakes are clear without being heavy-handed, and Scraps is a character kids will remember long after they've forgotten the quest itself.
An IF/THEN Books Classic Adventure — public domain source material reimagined as interactive fiction.
Get the Book
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$12.99 paperback · Coming September 2026
Available through Follett and Mackin for school and library orders
Bulk orders (Iris & Classic Adventure titles — $12.99 retail):
10–24 copies: $10.39 per copy (20% off)
25–49 copies: $9.09 per copy (30% off)
50+ copies: $7.79 per copy (40% off)
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