The Giant Garden Of Oz

[caccoloso89]

Not sure if it has been posted a long time ago... But today i found on web this book, a spin-off of The Wizard of Oz, written and illustrated by Eric Shanower. In this novel, a witch creates a growth potin than enlarges vegetables in the garden. "Dorothy falls prey to giantism herself and endures a subterranean ordeal before she, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma resolve the problem", as wiki reports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Garden_of_Oz
The most interesting thing is that wiki also says: "Shanower's The Giant Garden of Oz is (both literally and figuratively) a gritty ordeal, with abundant dirt, hunger, thirst, tears, bleeding, and suffering. His image of a filthy, naked, gigantic Dorothy Gale is certainly one of the most striking extremes in the literature of Oz."
We can read a very brief extract of the book here:
http://books.google.it/books?hl=it&i...#search_anchor
Hope for illustrations of the growth sequence too.

[Mr Wayne]

Caccoloso89,

Not a bad find, not bad at all. Hopeful at least, because after I found the English version of the same page (below) I searched the word "tight" and came up with the following text: "...shoes and socks off and rest her cramped feet. Dorothy wondered why her shoes felt so tight. Her feet didn't look swollen. She ate an apple and some bread. ...". After all, it is described in a summary of the book about Dorothy being "naked, gigantic". That does seem to suggest some growth process, as well as something more. Though I wouldn't count on illustrations as detailed as the likes of what has been brought to light on this forum. One can dream. B-)

http://books.google.com/books?id=jnAZ0PdjXAEC&q=tight

p.S. I have a penchant of searching growth stories for the word "tight", in case you didn't notice.


**Update**
After searching for more excerpts of the story, while on Amazon.com I found in one of the comments the following text, "...although some readers might be disturbed at the idea of Dorothy dressing herself in bed sheets after she grows out of her clothes." Not that any of us would find such a thing disturbing, of course. Lol

[vid]

And she starts taking control:

http://books.google.it/books?hl=it&i...#search_anchor

"Aunt Em and Uncle Henry protested, but Dorothy was firm. 'I'm a lot bigger than you,' she said with a smile, 'so you better do as I say.'"

[Mr Wayne]

While I was googling for tidbits of this book I happened across a couple websites where it was up for sale. You'll be aghast at the price range: $4 to $225! Maybe the person offering it at the higher price knows people like us are sorely in the market for detailed growth process stuff? Fate will determine that. B-)

[caccoloso89]

Shanower is an illustrator, first of all. In fact, in Google Books, we can read "With over 50 black-and-white illustrations". Sadly, on Google Images there's only a paint of the cow -.-

[Robopengy]

I know it probably doesn't happen in this book, but now that I think about it a straight up detailed growth sequence where Dorothy tears out of her clothes would be preeettty dang hot.

[caccoloso89]

A review from amazon: "Shanower's illustrations are amazing, although some readers might be disturbed at the idea of Dorothy dressing herself in bed sheets after she grows out of her clothes. Sadly, his writing is a bit more mundane. It's a great idea that introduces some fun new characters, but stylistically the writing is weak. Just the same, it's fun seeing our old friends from Oz in a new adventure. "
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Giant-Garde...124046-7186748

[Mr Wayne]

Originally Posted by Robopengy

I know it probably doesn't happen in this book, but now that I think about it a straight up detailed growth sequence where Dorothy tears out of her clothes would be preeettty dang hot.

I'll drink to that. Here, here! Yo ho ho, and a growing woman with rum! Arrgghh.

[Wussy]

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Originally Posted by Page 110

"That's different," said Old Magda. "All they're doing is following their instincts. They want food. The bigger they get the more food they need, and since I'm the only one who knows how to make the potion, they need me."
"They drink the potion?"
"No!" said Old Magda with a cackle. "You are the only one foolish enough to do that."
"What do you mean?" said Dorothy. Old Magda simply laughed her creaky laugh.
Dorothy remembered the tingling feeling of the water in the pool. How much had she drunk? A lot. She'd even soaked in it. Her stomach growled. The sleeves of her shirt suddenly seemed tighter around her arms.

Originally Posted by Page 129

A huge shape a hundred feet high loomed above him. Earth and rocks cascaded from it. Its head whipped back and forth. Dirt sprayed in every direction, stinging the Wizard's skin. Rivers of dirt ran frim tangled hair. Huge fingers clawed dirt from a huge face. Load chokes sent vibrations through the ground. The Wizard scrambled to his feet and backed away. The towering figure coughed and spat out wet globs of earth that stuck to the ground, forming craters.
"Ohhh..." it said, rubbing showers of dirt from its face.
The Wizard and Toto craned their necks upward, ready to run again.
"Dorothy?" shouted the Wizard.
The figure looked around, huge eyes blinking in the dirt-caked face.
"Dorothy!" shouted the Wizard again. Toto barked.
The figure seemed to hear, and looked down at them. "Oh, no," she said. "I-I grew."

[Mr Wayne]

Originally Posted by Wussy

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Heyyy Wussy, glad to see you around. B-) How did you manage to copy so much of the text in-preview? I couldn't get past page 112, and what I read was very limited. The last sentence of the second excerpt, from page 110, oooohhh so tantalizing. No wonder why I have a habit of searching for the word "tight" when reading such stories.

[Wussy]

Originally Posted by Volfsbayne

Heyyy Wussy, glad to see you around. B-) How did you manage to copy so much of the text in-preview? I couldn't get past page 112, and what I read was very limited. The last sentence of the second excerpt, from page 110, oooohhh so tantalizing. No wonder why I have a habit of searching for the word "tight" when reading such stories.

$4 from Amazon for a used copy, and I was $4 curious.

If you want to order it, keep in mind that it's a children's story. It's not going to go into the detail or directions that you'd like it to. It's illustrated as well, but the only scenes of giant Dorothy are while she's covered in dirt and muck.

[Mr Wayne]

Wussy,

From this part of page 110, "Her stomach growled. The sleeves of her shirt suddenly seemed tighter around her arms.", how descriptive is the growth/process scene in which she has been described as growing out of her clothes? I'm assuming it is less than 19 pages from the second excerpt you provided, but was wondering how detailed it might be. Taking into consideration that it is a children's book, I know not to expect anything sexually graphic, but there may still be some good process moments. B-)