princess in black and the hungry bunny horde

In the frame story, a brown-skinned human protagonist plays a video game on a handheld console evocative of the classic Nintendo Gameboy. In a video game, a superpowered rabbit must rescue a singing dog that brings everyone happiness. While not exactly novel, it’s well-executed and very funny. While Princess Magnolia and Frimplepants are too late for brunch, Princess Sneezewort gets the consolation prize of lunch with the Princess in Black and Blacky. 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. By the time she does, there are too many to fight! Humor comes from the juxtaposed danger and adorableness.

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. Pham’s illustrations give the bunnies wide-eyed innocence and little puffballs on the tips of their ears. However, when they arrive, instead of monsters they see a field full of adorable bunnies. They rush to rescue goat boy Duff, hoping to save the day in time for doughnuts. 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. The Princess in Black’s cutest adventure yet-no, really, the monsters are deceptively cute.

Princess in black and the hungry bunny horde