The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Woggle-bug tells him that he has no family, so he goes back to the corn-field where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots."

When Dorothy first discovered the Scarecrow (in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) he was hanging from a beanpole in a cornfield; it now develops that this pole descends deep underground to the Silver Islands.

After spending some time in his former kingdom ruling the quarrelsome Silver Islanders, the Scarecrow decides to return to Oz and continue his carefree existence there.

[2] The notes, titled "An Oz Book",[3] are known from four typewritten pages found at his publisher's, but their authenticity as Baum's work has been disputed.

In 1964, Thompson, in a letter, claimed that this note idea was fabricated by the publishers "to bridge the gap between Baum's books and" hers.