Giant Trouble
core novel 2017 Hamster Princess
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (768 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399186523 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Giant Trouble, the fourth Hamster Princess book, reworks the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. After a traveling salesman sells Princess Harriet a handful of magic beans, one of them grows overnight into an enormous beanstalk leading up into the clouds, and Harriet, true to form, cannot resist climbing it to see what lies at the top. There she finds a giant's castle and befriends Strings, a hybrid harp-and-hamster creature being held captive alongside an oversized goose. As Harriet explores the castle and gets to know its captive residents, she has to decide how to deal with the giant himself while figuring out a way to help her new friends escape.
Where it sits
- Universe: Hamster Princess
- Series: Hamster Princess core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. Kingfisher
Notes
- From the series record (Hamster Princess): A completed six-book illustrated middle-grade fairy-tale-parody series about Harriet Hamsterbone, a hamster princess cursed at birth to prick her finger on a hamster wheel and die, who instead treats the curse as a loophole to seek out danger. Confirmed a separate, unrelated universe from Ursula Vernon's own Dragonbreath (a different illustrated middle-grade series) and from her adult work published as T. Kingfisher.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Hamster Princess: position 4 of 6: previous Ratpunzel (2016) · next Whiskerella (2018)
Sources
- FictionDB: Hamster Princess Series in Order by Ursula Vernon
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536055/hamster-princess-giant-trouble-by-ursula-vernon/
- Ursula Vernon - Wikipedia
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