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| - Polychrome aka "Polly" is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum. She is introduced in Baum's fourth Oz book titled The Road to Oz, published in 1909. She makes her debut appearance in the sixth chapter of the novel titled The Rainbows Daughter. Polychrome is said to be a very rare sky fairy who is not actually from the magical Land of Oz, but belongs high up in the enchanted atmosphere within the same universe and continent of Oz and is invisible to anyone outside the dimension where Oz lies. Polychrome has many sky-siblings who are believed to be all girls and who live with their mysterious father figure. It is not made clear if the Rainbow itself is the father or if another atmospheric being that controls it is. Polychrome is said to be thousands of years old in age but appears
- When Dorothy Gale, the Shaggy Man, and Button-Bright first met Polychrome (or "Polly" to her friends), she was dancing to keep warm after accidentally sliding off her father's rainbow and landing on the surface of the Earth. Her father had withdrawn his bow without realizing she'd been left behind. She traveled with the companions across the Deadly Desert, into the Land of Oz and eventually arrived with them at the Emerald City where she attended Princess Ozma of Oz's birthday party. At the end of the party her father extended his rainbow and she returned home.
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| - Polychrome aka "Polly" is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum. She is introduced in Baum's fourth Oz book titled The Road to Oz, published in 1909. She makes her debut appearance in the sixth chapter of the novel titled The Rainbows Daughter. Polychrome is said to be a very rare sky fairy who is not actually from the magical Land of Oz, but belongs high up in the enchanted atmosphere within the same universe and continent of Oz and is invisible to anyone outside the dimension where Oz lies. Polychrome has many sky-siblings who are believed to be all girls and who live with their mysterious father figure. It is not made clear if the Rainbow itself is the father or if another atmospheric being that controls it is. Polychrome is said to be thousands of years old in age but appears to be no older than the character of Dorothy Gale who is described as being roughly around twelve. Baum says that Polychrome is the smallest, sweetest and most merriest of the "Daughters of the Rainbow". Yet she also is portrayed to be the most reckless, always day dreaming, carelessly dancing about to keep herself warm and always getting lost or left behind by her sky-family and cannot survive on land for too long. Thus, she is forever in search for her "bow". "With a glad cry the Rainbow's youngest daughter sprang from her seat and leaped on the arched bow that awaited her. As she mounted gradually upward in a dance like fashion she cried out "Good-bye, Princess Ozma! Good-bye, Dorothy Gale!", who knew that the voice belonged to Polychrome; but now the little creatures tiny form had sank entirely into the Rainbow as she become one with the bow again. Their eyes could no longer see her but they blew kisses towards her way with one hand, and fanned goodbye with the other. Suddenly, the end of the bow slowly lifted from the earth and its colors ascended, fading into the clouds like mist before a high breeze and she, along with the bow were entirely gone... " ―The Road to Oz (1909)
* Polychrome is also commonly referred to and known as The Rainbow Fairy, or Princess of the Rainbow.
- When Dorothy Gale, the Shaggy Man, and Button-Bright first met Polychrome (or "Polly" to her friends), she was dancing to keep warm after accidentally sliding off her father's rainbow and landing on the surface of the Earth. Her father had withdrawn his bow without realizing she'd been left behind. She traveled with the companions across the Deadly Desert, into the Land of Oz and eventually arrived with them at the Emerald City where she attended Princess Ozma of Oz's birthday party. At the end of the party her father extended his rainbow and she returned home. When the rainbow later set down on Sky Island, Polychrome recognized Button-Bright who was stranded there. She left the rainbow for an hour or two to help the boy and his friends, Trot and Cap'n Bill, before returning to her home in the sky. Polychrome was stranded upon the earth for a second time and encountered the Shaggy Man again (though they didn't seem to recognize one another), along with Betsy Bobbin, Hank the Mule, and Ozga the Rose Princess. She accompanied them to the Nome Kingdom to rescue the Shaggy Man's Brother, and there, the Nome King was captivated by her and invited her to stay in his Kingdom and make him happy. She refused and helped depose the Monarch. When they found the Shaggy Man's Brother, Polychrome agreed to kiss him to break a spell of ugliness that Ruggedo had placed upon him, saying that she had never kissed a mortal man in all her thousands of years. On one of her visits to Oz, after she again got separated from the rainbow out of carelessness, Polychrome fell asleep near the Yoop castle. Mrs. Yoop found her sleeping and, being a Yookoohoo, transformed her into a canary, thus suppressing most of her fairy powers. Mrs. Yoop kept the canary prisoner, until she transformed and captured the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Woot the Wanderer as well. Together, the four planned and made their escape. They journeyed to Jinjur's house, where Ozma met them and transformed them all to their natural forms. Polychrome then went with the party to meet Nimmie Amee, helping them get through a magical barrier using her fairy powers. Soon thereafter, there was a rainstorm and a subsequent rainbow, allowing Polychrome to return home to the sky.
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