kingdom, to rule it with kindness and justice—but, with her wish unfilfilled, must always beware of a mirror. Setting The story takes place in the two kingdoms of Noland and Ix, which Baum places across the Impassable Desert to the north of the Land of Oz. Film adaptation In 1914, the Oz Film Manufacturing Company produced a five-reel feature film version of Queen Zixi of Ix titled The Magic Cloak of Oz. The initial distributor of the film, Paramount Pictures, backed out because of poor results from an earlier Oz film, The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The Magic Cloak of Oz was released by the National Film Corporation in 1917. Other notes King Bud, Princess Fluff, and Queen Zixi also appear in Baum's fifth Oz book, The Road to Oz. Ix was later visited in The Silver Princess in Oz where it is home to King Chillywalla of Boxwood and his subjects, the Boxers, who box up everything, including their own bodies down to individual features. Zixi does not appear in the story. Kabumpo says there is no time to meet Queen "Zixie" [sic]. References External links A discussion of the book (Archived copy) 1905 American novels 1905 fantasy novels Children's fantasy novels American children's novels Novels first published in serial form Books by L. Frank Baum Zixi Zixi Zixi Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine American fantasy novels adapted into films 1905 children's books Zixi