The Magic of Oz

Jack Pumpkinhead's House

also pumpkin house · the farm of Jack Pumpkinhead · Jack's house

Jack Pumpkinhead's home, a huge hollowed-out pumpkin with a door, windows and a stovepipe, standing in the middle of the pumpkin field he farms for spare heads.

First named in The Road to Oz, ch. 16

They walked over to a monstrous big, hollow pumpkin which had a door and windows cut through the rind.

Where this is

  • placed In Oz worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    Patchwork Girl ch.19 puts it 'a day's journey from the Emerald City', and in Road to Oz ch.16 the Tin Woodman walks Dorothy to it from his own Winkie Country.

Names in the books

  • called Jack Pumpkinhead's House 2 chapters

    The Emerald City of Oz25

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz25

  • called Jack's house 2 chapters

    Little Wizard Stories of Oz5

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz19

  • called pumpkin house 1 chapter

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz19

  • called the farm of Jack Pumpkinhead 1 chapter

    The Emerald City of Oz25

What the books say it is

  • made of a neatly hollowed-out pumpkin 1 chapter
    • In one of them, which had been neatly hollowed out, Jack himself lived, and he declared that it was a very comfortable residence.
      The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 25
  • size as large as the biggest pumpkins on the vines 1 chapter
    • Some of the pumpkins now ripening on the vines were almost as large as Jack's house, and he told Dorothy he intended to add another pumpkin to his mansion.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 19
  • appearance door, several windows and a stovepipe through the top 1 chapter

Appearances

The Road to Oz (1 of 24 chapters)
The Emerald City of Oz (1 of 30 chapters)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1 of 6 chapters)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1 of 28 chapters)
Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1 of 21 chapters)

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