I Believe in Bunnycorns

by Danielle McLean, Prisca Le Tandé (Illustrator)

Overview

Do you believe in bunnycorns? That's right—half-unicorn, half-bunnies are hopping your way in this candy-colored die-cut board book companion to I Love My Llamacorn!

Wake up! Bunnies with unicorn horns abound in a glittery, rainbow world! They're fluffy, they're energetic, and they leave a trail of sparkle dust wherever they go. This rhyming board book—dashed with glitter and with a die-cut flower blooming in a new color on every page—will bring a smile to any child's face (and grown-ups too!). This sweet springtime mash-up fits nicely into an Easter basket, but will bring delight any day of year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593126431
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Series:	Llamacorn and Friends Series
Pages:	18
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

DANIELLE McLEAN is a children's book editor who lives in South London, England. When she's not writing and editing children's books, she'll be found in a ballet class pursuing her other childhood dream.

PRISCA LE TANDE is a child of the disco era, so dancing queens and grooving cats are right up her alley. She sees the world of illustration as a dessert cart laden with enticing delights (Why not taste everything? You can always go to the dentist afterwards!) After studying Applied Art at school, she enrolled in a film studies program and began her adventures in the world of animation. When she is not illustrating children's books, she is creating and directing the animated series Grosha and Mr. B. She lives in France.

Editorial Reviews

2020-03-25
Copious amounts of glitter and rainbows and a die-cut rainbow flower add a bit of interest to this celebration of the titular one-horned bunnies.

With simple, rhyming text and high-contrast, neon illustrations, this book is like cotton candy for the eyes and ears. Like that sugary confection, it’s sweet—arguably, too much so. “We’re going on a bunny hunt / to find the bunnycorns. / We follow trails of sparkle dust / and look for shiny horns! // We’ll find them in the places / where candy carrots grow. / I CAN SEE A BUNNYCORN! / Let’s go and say hello!” As the claims about the bunnycorns grow more extravagant, the artwork explodes in garish bursts of color. As for the aforementioned die-cut flower, it starts as a large cutout on the front cover of the book, becoming progressively smaller through each successive page, till it ends as a glittery, yellow single flower on the second-to-last double-page spread. In the denouement that follows, the narrative voice breaks the literary fourth wall: “If you believe in bunnycorns, / then they’ll believe in you. / ’Cause bunnycorns are special, / and baby, YOU are too!” The use of bunnies, of course, constitutes a radical departure from author McLean and illustrator Le Tandé’s 2019 opus, I Love My Llamacorn.

Cute, harmless, and unlikely to achieve classic status. (Board book. 1-4)

Kirkus Reviews