By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
A unicorn who is absolutely certain that little girls are real, no matter what everybody says.
Uni is a unicorn, and all the other unicorns agree on one thing: little girls are not real. They are a made-up story. Uni knows better. Somewhere out there is a real little girl, and she is brave and clever and true. Meanwhile, somewhere out there, a little girl is telling everyone that unicorns are real and being told she is being silly. The book goes back and forth between the two of them, each one laughed at for believing in the other, and then it lets them find each other. Forty pages, and Brigette Barrager draws it all in a pink and gold your child will want to climb into.
A child deep in a unicorn obsession is usually being told, kindly, by somebody, that unicorns are not real. This book takes their side without blinking and then does something better: it puts the unicorn in the same corner, making the same case about them. Your child gets to be the impossible creature that somebody else is being laughed at for believing in. That is a real thrill at four, and it is why this one comes back off the shelf when the other sparkly ones stay on it. It also looks the way your child wants unicorns to look, which matters more than we like to admit.