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247 pp.
| Dial |
August, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3983-3$12.99
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After learning she's cursed (à la Sleeping Beauty) to prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep, "Crazy Princess Harriet," a feisty hamster, chooses to spend her remaining days "beating monsters senseless" rather than taking deportment lessons. Deftly skewering genre types, Vernon's very funny fractured fairy tale features witty dialogue, interspersed midnight-blue-tinted cartoon panels--and adventures galore.