This sequel to Princess Pru and the Ogre on the Hill is equally delightful. Like before, Pru is living with her two loving dads and an ostrich named Orville, but this time also has an “ogre-tastic best friend named Oggy” (whose story comprises the first book).
Pru is jealous that after their daily adventures together Oggy gets to go home and do what he wants, while Pru has to finish her royal vegetables before dessert and go to bed on time. Her dads, King Knish and King Karl, tell her they set boundaries because they love her, and she’ll thank him someday.
Like most kids, Pru is not convinced by this logic. The next day, Oggy comes up with a plan: They’ll dress up as each other and change places so she can experience independence while he lives life in the palace. (The fact that they look nothing alike and are of vastly different heights is amusingly ignored.)
But being a solo ogre isn’t what Pru had imagined. And when a dragon swoops over the palace and flies away with the “princess,” Pru must set out across crocodile-infested rivers to rescue her friend.
While the switching-places trope is an old one, it’s a classic for good reason. Pru and Oggy’s adventures are hilarious, and the fact that Pru has two dads is completely incidental to the tale. Highly recommended.
Pru and one dad read as White; the other reads as South Asian.
