We see a tall castle tower with a tiny figure diving down toward the moat shouting, "WHEEEEEEEEE!"
I'M INVINCIBLE!" A brilliant page turn reveals Harriet's first act after making this discovery. Harriet Hamsterbone is the kind of princess who is "brave and intelligent and excelled in traditional hamster princess skills, like checkers and fractions." She is less interested in developing other traditional princess skills like "trailing around the palace looking ethereal and sighing a lot." When the king and queen tell Harriet about the curse as she nears her tenth birthday, she immediately finds the loophole in this seemingly airtight curse, exclaiming, "Until I'm twelve, nothing can touch me! The curse needs me alive until I'm twelve, or it can't operate. Of course the king and queen do everything they can to protect Harriet and prepare for the inevitable when she will prick her "finger upon a hamster wheel and fall into a sleep like death" on her twelfth birthday. The first chapters follow the fairy tale closely, with winged mice standing in for the fairy godmothers and a fierce, red-eyed rat named Ratshade who "traded her tail for power when she was young," which is quite shocking, as the narrator tells us in an aside. The first book in the series, Harriet the Invincible, had me smiling and laughing from start to finish.
Perfect for fans of Babymouse and Chris Colfer's Land of Stories, this laugh-out-loud new comic hybrid series will turn everything you thought you knew about princesses on its head.And it is. And so begins a grand life of adventure with her trusty riding quail, Mumfrey.until her twelfth birthday arrives and the curse manifests in a most unexpected way. One day, though, Harriet's parents tell her of the curse that a rat placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's twelve and fall into a deep sleep. For Harriet, this is most wonderful news: It means she's invincible until she's twelve! After all, no good curse goes to waste. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess.
Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious new comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath Harriet Hamsterbone is not your average prin
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