![]() ![]() ![]() That is, Dean has left out Dick growing tall and then being shrunk back to size and Saucepan Man taking a pill that makes his nose grow. Everything after that is left out until the scene (in chapter 21) where the goblin asks the children what medicine they want. In particular, in The Land of Magic Medicines, Dean includes the text up to where the pixie asks Jo (in chapter 20) if he has come for some medicine for shining eyes. They have also left out the lovely visit to The Land of Presents that follows.īut to make the story seem ordered, Dean has cobbled together bits and pieces of chapters 20, 21 and 22 under the heading of chapter 20, then added the final paragraph from chapter 26(!) to finish the book. ![]() That is, the following chapters are not included:ĭean has omitted the very exciting scenes involving Moon-Face and Silky being taken prisoner by Sir Stamp-a-Lot and Dame Yell-Around from The Land of Tempers. The omnibus "slightly abridged" version only has 20 chapters, the 20th chapter being "The Land of Magic Medicines". Booklover wrote:Now the bad news: The 1970s Dean "revised" edition of The Magic Faraway Tree contains 26 chapters. ![]()
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