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D.G., Gigi

Cucumber Quest: The Doughnut Kingdom

190 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-15803-1 $21.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-62672-832-5 $14.99
(3) 4-6 Cucumber Quest series. Originally a web comic, this series-opening graphic novel satirizes the hero's journey (and video games) and disrupts gender norms. School-loving bunny Cucumber struggles against his harsh father, Lord Cabbage, and his way-more-heroic sister, Almond, to avoid a quest in the Doughnut Kingdom (digitally rendered in apt candy colors). The seemingly light-and-frothy comic has darker undertones in its portrayals of gender relations and harassment.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

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