About the book: year / A fairy tale from the "Emerald City" series. After the defeat of the army of blockheads, life in the Magic Land went on as usual. There are no more evil sorceresses, the treacherous conqueror Oorfene Deuce is sent into exile in disgrace. It would seem that everything is fine. However, a new danger looms over the Blue Country. One of Gingema's surviving minions, the huge snake Bloodtoad, decided to continue the work of his mistress. How to deal with it? How to defeat one whose scales even the sharp axes of woodcutters cannot take? Two munchkin brothers go in search of the Magic Cedar, the mysterious Gurricap Tree, with the help of which they hope to get rid of the terrible snake. (The cover design uses drawings by Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky)