The Grimmerie, in its origins, is a book that has exists in Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and in said book lies various spells and incantations that Elphaba adds to her magical repertoire.

Outside of the novel (by that, I mean in the real world), the Grimmerie is a beautiful hardbound book that looks as the production of Broadway musical Wicked, featuring plenty of information, gorgeous artwork and photographs, making it the must-have for any Wicked fan.

Interspersed throughout the book are divider pages where a line or lyric from the Broadway musical is placed together with a piece of artwork from L. Frank Baum’s original Oz books. It’s a wonderful juxtaposition, bringing together the old with the new, but unfortunately they missed something pretty crucial for the following page, which has Galinda’s line: “You know black is this year’s pink!”

Glinda?

I think they might want to have double-checked exactly which character illustration it was before using it.

Post title is from “Ozma of Oz”.