| LC control no. | no2015016254 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character) |
| Variant(s) | Cowardly Lion, of Oz (Fictitious character) Lion, of Oz (Fictitious character) Brrr (Fictitious character) Courageous Lion (Fictitious character) Rex, the X (Fictitious character) |
| Associated country | Oz (Imaginary place) |
| Located | Oz (Imaginary place) |
| Found in | Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz, 1923. Baum, Roger S. The Lion of Oz and the badge of courage, ©1995. Lion of Oz, c2000. Wikipedia, February 5, 2015 (Cowardly Lion; The Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is an African lion, but he speaks and interacts with humans; First appearance: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); In the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion was a humanoid biped; minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation; also appears in Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch, also in a minor role. The Cowardly Lion is the central character in the third book of the series, A Lion Among Men, where he is given the name of Brrr, which was the name given to him in Wicked; The book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage and its accompanying animated feature, Lion of Oz, show the Lion as having grown up in a circus in America. His caretaker, Oscar Diggs, was the man who would become the Wizard of Oz; this man took the Lion on a balloon ride one night, which resulted in the two becoming stranded in Oz. Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof (he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.).) The wonderful wiki of Oz website, February 5, 2015 (Cowardly Lion; The Cowardly Lion is a fictional animal character created by L. Frank Baum, author and inventor of the Oz legacy. He is introduced in Baum's first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. He is a main character who makes his debut appearance in the sixth chapter of the novel titled The Cowardly Lion. He also is the third and final being to join the story's child protagonist and heroine named Dorothy Gale; In the Magic Land stories of Alexander Volkov and his followers, the Cowardly Lion is re-named the Courageous Lion. March Laumer, an adaptor of Volkov, follows this in his own Oz novels; and in his short story "The Cowardly Lion Changes His Name," Laumer dubs the Lion "Rex the X." The Wicked years: Brrr was the name of the Cowardly Lion in Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men.) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 99003964 |
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