![]() Those really were magic beans.” Feeling responsible for the appearance of the giant beanstalk, she begins to think of a way to remove it without crushing the nearby village hearing some harp music from the high up in the stalk, she realizes she can’t remove it unless she investigates. “Well,” says Harriet, “I guess I owe that chipmunk an apology. In the morning he feels better, but there’s a huge beanstalk that wasn’t there the night before. Mumfrey the quail spends a miserable night as his aching tummy rids itself of the irritating bean. Harriet, who never agreed to the trade in the first place, refuses and the frustrated chipmunk vanishes in a puff of smoke. ![]() “Well, now you owe me a quail,” says the chipmunk. Alas, the beans are a little too close to Mumfrey’s mouth and he gobbles one up. I wouldn’t trade Mumfrey for three magic beans,” says Harriet to the chipmunk. (Hamsters, of course, are much too small to ride horses by themselves.) In her fourth adventure, “Giant Trouble,” author Ursula Vernon introduces Harriet to a sneaky chipmunk who tries to trade a few magical beans for Harriet’s faithful companion, Mumfrey, her trusty battle quail. In the mind of the adventurous Harriet, that just means until then, anything goes. ![]() Harriet (a hamster) discovers that she was cursed by a rat to prick her finger on a hamster wheel and fall into a deep sleep on the fateful day. Harriet Hamsterbone is an invincible princess - until she turns 12. ![]()
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