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The Land Of Green Ginger

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The Land Of Green Ginger	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Land of Green Ginger is a children's book by the South African/American writer Noel Langley. It was first published as The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger in 1937, and was successful enough that it may have landed Langley his job working on the script The Wizard of Oz and hence helped launch his career as a screenwriter. It was revised with the shorter title in 1966, and that is probably the best-known and most popular version. An abridged version was published in 1975, and is widely hated by fans of the earlier edition, as it loses some of the jokes, one or two significant characters, and too much of the prose, which verges on the edge of Purple without ever quite falling in.Some editions have illustrations by popular children's book artist Edward Ardizzone, which are another part of the book's charm. Its profile was raised in the UK in 1968 when it was read on Jackanory by Kenneth Williams (who could be just as lemony as the book's narrator).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The story is an early example of a modern sequel to a classic popular story, in this case that of Aladdin, asking what happened after the Happily Ever After ending. In this case, though, there's no attempt to subvert the original story; Aladdin remains Happily Married to his beloved Bedr-el-Budur and is now Emperor of China, and the story begins with the birth of their son. However, to the surprise of all present, the child starts talking soon after birth, and begins by saying that Aladdin's mother has a face like a Button-Nosed Tortoise. Aladdin consults the djinn of the lamp (from the original story), who realizes that the boy must be the Chosen One destined to break the unfortunate Spell of the Land of Green Ginger. And so, when the boy (who was also destined to be named Abu Ali) comes of age, he sets off on his adventure — which brings him romance, and also conflict with two rival princes, the Wicked Tintac Ping Foo of Persia and the equally Wicked Rubdub Ben Thud of Arabia. Langley clearly had a keen eye for tropes as well as that prose style, so the book, while aimed at children, is an immense pleasure for parents to read.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_1da2091c	comment	Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: The Mouse adopts this role while traveling with Abu Ali and Boomalakka Wee, having a tendency to be sarcastic in a prim and proper way. Her sarcasm is understandable, given that she was magically summoned without her consent, by accident.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Both the Mouse and the Magic Phoenix Birds are happy to chat.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Rubdub Ben Thud and Tintac Ping Foo (who spend most of the book ganging up on Abu Ali, despite the fact that they hate each other) play hard into this trope visually, especially in Ardizzone's illustrations. However, they're both idiots; most of the bright ideas come from Rubdub's Small Slave.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_36228b5a	type	Busman's Vocabulary
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_36228b5a	comment	Busman's Vocabulary: Sinbad the Sailor ("Son of the Sinbad!") talks largely in nautical clichés, to the point that the reader (who first encounters him sailing a small boat on a calm river) may well doubt his authenticity.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_38424ebb	type	Genie in a Bottle
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_38424ebb	comment	Genie in a Bottle: Abdul, the Slave of the Lamp from Aladdin's original story, now freed, can still be summoned, and is happy to act as a friendly advisor. (True to its sources, this story uses an old-fashioned oil lamp rather than a bottle, and treats it as a summoning mechanism rather than a prison.) Later in the story, Abdul's small son, Boomalakka Wee, shows up in his place, and proves rather less competent.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_3f4613f8	comment	Smart People Wear Glasses: The Magician wears them, and continues to do so even when he's a Button-Nosed Tortoise.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Not only does this story follow on from the happy ending of Aladdin, but Abu Ali naturally gets his own happy ending. It's all in genre.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_49c68dd3	type	Magic Carpet
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_49c68dd3	comment	Magic Carpet: Being a story in "Arabian Nights" Days mode, the story naturally features a magic carpet (said to be the last in the world), which proves both perfectly capable of flight and useless when it is needed. First, when the Wicked Princes purchase it jointly, it proves unable to carry the pair of them together, and later, when Abu Ali and Silver Bud attempt to use it to escape from her father, the window they have to fly through proves too narrow, and the carpet stops dead.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_52c6a4d	type	Last-Minute Baby Naming
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_52c6a4d	comment	Last-Minute Baby Naming: When the new prince is born to the Emperor and Empress of China, a royal council is summoned to suggest a name for him — and can't think of anything. (There are hints that this last-minute decision-making is traditional, though.) Fortunately, it soon turns out that the new prince's destiny as the Chosen One extends to his name (Abu Ali), which everyone accepts.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Rubdub Ben Thud's Small Slave is a villainous eastern version, being by far the most capable of the villains.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_618c7492	type	The Protagonist
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_618c7492	comment	The Protagonist: Abu Ali. Although the narrative occasionally shifts to other characters, it's pretty much always to set up their interactions with him.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: The book is told in the voice of a rather melodramatic children's storyteller.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_6e7268ad	comment	Parrot Pet Position: One of the whole list of stereotypes that mark Sinbad the Sailor ("Son of the Sinbad!") out as a sailor is, well...
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_76dc4f31	type	"Arabian Nights" Days
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_76dc4f31	comment	"Arabian Nights" Days: The book is a nigh-Troperiffic collection of features from western ideas of the Arabian Nights — djinn, magic carpets, sultans, and desert cities included.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Nicely averted; the Mouse takes up Permanent Residence with Abu Ali and Silver Bud. Though she never does find out what happened to her Friend who had Run Away to Sea.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Although this is essentially a children's book, it has plenty of references and wry humor to make it entertaining for adults, such as the various parodic references to The Arabian Nights and its adaptations into British pantomime. This occasionally swings into invoked Genius Bonus territory, as in the depiction of Omar Khayyam.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Abu Ali is destined to deal with the problem of the Land of Green Ginger. Everyone goes along with this; it's just how things are.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_952bcf83	type	The Phoenix
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_952bcf83	comment	The Phoenix: Abu Ali is challenged by the father of the beautiful Silver Bud to bring Three Tail Feathers from the Magic Phoenix Bird, which is believed to be Quite Extinct by Those Who Know, in order to win her hand in marriage. It isn't extinct, as it turns out — he finds a pair — but they turn out to be simply large, intelligent, talking birds, not much like the legendary creature.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_9b0b8109	type	Floating Continent
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_9b0b8109	comment	Floating Continent: The eponymous Land of Green Ginger is a small but valid example — a magical flying island, floating out of control when the story begins.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_9b2aefbf	type	Hero Protagonist
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_9b2aefbf	comment	Hero Protagonist: Abu Ali (see The Hero and The Protagonist.) It's a very old-school story, in a knowing way.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Abu Ali seems to have fallen in love with Silver Bud before he meets her, after Abdul the Djinn has just hinted that she may be his destined love and Omar Khayyam has mentioned her beauty and the way her father keeps her locked up. And while Silver Bud initially mostly just seems sorry for Abu Ali, because her father is likely to have him killed, she is soon declaring that she loves him, if only as a way to try and save him.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Sulkpot Ben Nagnag keeps his daughter, Silver Bud, locked up in his home because he intends to ensure that she marries a wealthy prince of his choosing. While he doesn't seem to treat her especially badly otherwise (this is a children's book, after all), Abu Ali is shocked and outraged to hear this, and vows to rescue her.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: This tends to result in comedic failures in this story. The lamp allows its holder to summon Abdul the Djinn, although since Aladdin freed him from servitude, he comes strictly as a favor. He tells Abu Ali that he'll help just once during the latter's quest. Unfortunately, he's sleeping off his lunch when Abu Ali tries to take him up on this, and his small son Boomalakka Wee shows up instead. Boomalakka Wee attempts to conjure Abu Ali a new donkey when asked. However, he gets a mouse instead. The Mouse is quite annoyed, especially as Boomalakka Wee can't send it back, but ends up joining the quest anyway.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: Nosi Parka the Egg Head uses his Crystal Ball with flawless precision.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Abu Ali is handsome, amiable, considerate, optimistic, industrious, and even-tempered. Nobody in Aladdin's court knows what to do with him.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Abu Ali, Boomalakka Wee, and the Mouse operate as a trio for a fair part of the book. This mostly means that Abu Ali acts as the leader/hero while the other two provide bickering comic relief, but they do occasionally make themselves useful.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e453ef50	type	Crystal Ball
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e453ef50	comment	Crystal Ball: Nosi Parka the Egg Head monitors events all round the world with his crystal.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e49686	type	The Hero
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Abu Ali is a Nice Guy, quite competent (though not superhuman), and determined to do the right thing. He goes on a quest, solves a problem, and gets the girl.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: In classic Arabian Nights style, the book has princes from China, Persia, and Arabia (and also, it’s mentioned, Japan) running round Samarkand and assorted other locations and bumping into each other en route there. Furthermore, Sulkpot Ben Nagnag of that city is described as “the richest Wholesale Jeweller in all Araby”; Samarkand is nowhere near Arabia.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_ea9f0351	type	My Brain Is Big
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_ea9f0351	comment	My Brain Is Big: Nosi Parka the Egg Head has the Baldest Head (and the Largest Nose) in the World, but is otherwise impossible to describe. He is also a mind-reader and a Seer.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: Langley is fond of capitalizing Significant Terms for humorous effect.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_f654419c	type	Baleful Polymorph
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_f654419c	comment	Baleful Polymorph: When the Magician created the Land of Green Ginger, a glitch in the final enchantment turned him into a Button-Nosed Tortoise, and he can neither change back nor control the flying island. It's Abu Ali's destiny to save him.
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The Land Of Green Ginger / int_fe91380c	type	Nobility Marries Money
The Land Of Green Ginger / int_fe91380c	comment	Nobility Marries Money: The Wicked Princes are both interested in Silver Bud because her father, Sulkpot Ben Nagnag, is the richest Wholesale Jeweller in all Araby (and because each of them despises the other). This despite the fact that their own families are evidently quite wealthy (which is just as well for them, as Sulkpot insists that his daughter will only marry a wealthy prince).
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