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It's Little Red Riding Hood as you've never seen her before in this funny, feminist spin on the fairy tale, from award-winning author Ursula Vernon
Most monsters know better than to mess with Princess Harriet Hamsterbone. She's a fearsome warrior, an accomplished jouster, and is so convincing that she once converted a beastly Ogrecat to vegetarianism. So why would a pack of weasel-wolf monsters come to her for help? Well, there's something downright spooky going on in the forest where they live, and it all centers around a mysterious girl in a red cape. No one knows better than Harriet that little girls aren't always sweet. Luckily there's no problem too big or bad for this princess to solve.
In this sixth installment of her whip-smart Hamster Princess series, Ursula Vernon once again upends fairy tale tropes and subverts gender stereotypes to brilliant effect. This is a "Once Upon a Time" like you've never seen before.
Author Notes
Ursula Vernon is a freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She received an undergraduate degree in anthropology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She took several art classes in college. Her first children's book, Nurk: The Strange Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew, was published in 2008. Her other works include Black Dogs: The House of Diamond and the Dragonbreath series. She also writes and illustrates the webcomic Digger and the creator of The Biting Pear of Salamanca.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
Hamster Princess Harriet is forced to attend a ball--in a dress!--and gets pulled into a mystery involving a hamster in glass shoes (Whiskerella). A rodent-girl in a bright red hood asks Harriet for help with weasel-wolves lurking around her grandmother's cottage (Little Red). Vernon's fifth and sixth trippy fairy-tale takeoffs use humor, quick pacing, occasional comic bookstyle panels, and snappy dialogue to engage young and struggling readers. [Review covers these titles: Hamster Princess: Little Red Rodent Hood and Hamster Princess: Whiskerella.] (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The Hamster Princess takes on Little Red Riding Hood.A small, sycophantic, adorable-voiced hamster girl wearing a bright red hood seeks out Princess Harriet for help, saying her grandmother is being terrorized by weasel-wolves. Although she is deeply repelled by the little hamster's extreme cuteness, Harriet and her trusty companion, Wilbur, follow Red into the woods, where they find the weasel-wolves. They are acting suspiciously docilebut Red says to ignore them; it's "the big one" who's the problem. Their first encounter with the big one involves a badly spelled note and a drawing of Harriet with "little stink-lines," but the second moonlit meeting is even stranger, as the big one is looking a lot more hamsterous and actually speaks (his name's Grey). Grey explains that he was "born a weasel-wolf" but was "bitten by a hamster under the full moon," making him a were-hamster. Probing reveals a shocking shared backstory between Grey and Harriet, and Wilbur's hilariously ill at ease while Grey and Harriet bond. Grey's looking for packs of weasel-wolves that have gone missing; it seems they vanish when Red and her grandmother enter an area. The jokes, both visual and textual, share space with the plot's central conflict: Harriet must decide whom to trusta hamster subject who annoys her or a hamster-eating monster she likes. Vintage Vernon humor and a cast so lovable it hurts. (Graphic/fantasy hybrid. 7-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
