Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham's "The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde" - A Delightful Adventure for Young Readers!

dttww: The headline say it all. My 7-year old granddaughter is a voracious reader and this is her favorite series of books. In brief, these humorous and colorfully-illustrated tomes center around a princess whose alter ego is a masked, black-costumed heroine who fights goat-eating monsters which emerge from a hole in the earth.

United States on Jul 10, 2023

customer12: The story is interesting. The pictures are also well drawn with great details. My 6- yr daughter
finished it at one sitting.

United States on Oct 15, 2022

karen: We found one at a local thrift shop and decided to get it and check it out. After the first chapter we were hooked!! My daughter is 7 and asks to go to bed early so we can have more "reading time". The author did a great job with the story, illustrations and names of the characters. We ended up ordering the whole series. I HIGHLY recommend these books!!

Canada on Jan 01, 2022

Vampire Book Reviews: Daughters love this book

Canada on Feb 05, 2021

Chris Osborne: Awesome bedtime reading

Canada on Oct 16, 2020

Newell Cotton: My 5 year old daughter loves these stories. It's a great series for that age of children.

Canada on Oct 04, 2020

mostlyyalit: Such a hit with my friends' daughters - both a three-year old and a six-year old. Illustrations on every page make this great for younger readers, while the chapters make it feel a bit older. There's a lot of repetition in the writing that makes it easy to follow, but the story has subtleties that older kids will enjoy. Highly recommend this whole series!

Canada on Aug 18, 2016

Battle9111: The Princess in Black's cutest adventure yet—no, really, the monsters are deceptively cute. While Princess Magnolia and unicorn Frimplepants are on their way to a much anticipated brunch with Princess Sneezewort, Magnolia's monster alarm goes off, forcing an emergency costume change on her and Frimplepants to become the Princess in Black and her faithful steed, Blacky. They rush to rescue goat boy Duff, hoping to save the day in time for doughnuts. However, when they arrive, instead of monsters they see a field full of adorable bunnies. Pham's illustrations give the bunnies wide-eyed innocence and little puffballs on the tips of their ears. Duff tries to explain that they're menaces from Monster Land that eat everything (all the grass, a tree, a goat's horn…), but the Princess has trouble imagining that monsters might come in such a cute package. By the time she does, there are too many to fight! Humor comes from the juxtaposed danger and adorableness. Just when the bunnies decide to eat the Princess, Blacky—who, as Frimplepants, is fluent in Cuteness—communicates that she's not food and persuades the bunnies to return to Monster Land. While Princess Magnolia and...

United States on Jul 01, 2016

Gree: We love Shannon Hale at our house, and this series is no exception. The charm, whit, and drawings are all wonderful. However, of the three Princess in Black books, this is our least favorite. Maybe it is because I bought them to read to my 3 year old, but I think it is a bit more unsettling to young readers then the other books in the series.

SPOILER ALERT: In the past books, the monsters never actually ate anything, so I was telling my daughter, who is at that age to be afraid of monsters at night, that "Monsters don't eat people. They only eat goats," and she would happily go to sleep. In this book, however, the bunnies not only eat everything in sight, including the Princess in Black's shoe, but they also threaten to eat both her and Duff because they do not speak the language of cuteness. Not the best thing to have happen at our house. My daughter started to worry about monsters at night again, and we had to convince her that she spoke the language of cuteness so as to be safe. It was a much harder sell since she likes to think of herself as the Princess in Black.

For now, this particular book has been put on the shelf. Still, I think it is worth having if you...

United States on Mar 14, 2016

Heidi Grange: The Hales have created another winning book with The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde. Princess Magnolia presents a tough picture when she dresses up and tackles monsters as the Princess in Black. But she is as susceptible as anyone to cuteness, and the horde of bunnies she faces in this book are utterly adorable. It's funny to read about the goat boy's efforts to convince her that the bunnies aren't as sweet as they are cute, as they devour everything in sight, including a goat horn and a complete tree. But interestingly it isn't the Princess in Black who saves the day, which adds a nice twist to the story. The bunnies scaring off the other monsters is pretty funny as well. Pham, as in the other Princess in Black stories, steals the show with her gorgeous illustrations. A surefire winner for young readers who enjoy princess stories or superhero stories or both. This continues to be one of my favorite series to read and share.

United States on Mar 08, 2016