Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
Lost Boy
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Editorial identifierNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0251
- Registry ID
- char-0251
- Canonical display name
- Lost Boy
- Naming status
- Editorial identifier
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Scarecrow of Oz · Ch. 8
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
had a broad grin on his face. The Ork looked from one to another and asked: "Who is this stranger?" "Why, it's Button-Bright, of course," answered Trot. "If anyone ever finds a lost boy, he can make up his mind it's Button-Bright. But how he ever came to be lost in this far-away country is more'n I can make out." "Where does he belong?" inquired the Ork. "His home used to be in Philadelphia, I think; but I'm quite sure
Editorial notes
Identity handling
- Display label is editorial; it is not presented as a proper name supplied by Baum.