Unicorn Day

by Diana Murray, Luke Flowers (Illustrator)

Overview

Hooray! Hooray! It's Unicorn Day! Thelma the Unicorn meets Uni the Unicorn in this rainbow-packed board book guaranteed to delight you with its heartfelt message of inclusivity and dazzling pictures. This clever, colorful, and over-the-top board book about unicorns and unique-corns is a MUST for all unicorn lovers!

The most important rule of Unicorn Day is to have fun, fun, fun!

The unicorns are celebrating their favorite day of the year, complete with rainbows, cupcakes, butterflies, and all sorts of joyful things. But when it's revealed there's an impostor in their midst, the party comes to a screeching halt...

Will the unicorns welcome all and continue their fun in all its glittery glory? Unicorn Day delights in everything that's special: unicorns, celebrations, and most importantly, friendship.

Goodreads Choice Award of 2019 Finalist

The Perfect gift if you're looking for:

• A fun-filled bedtime story
• Colorful, beautiful animal stories
• Children's books about unicorns
• Unicorn gifts for little girls and boys

Other Unicorn Books by Diana Murray to Look Out For:

• Unicorn Night
• Unicorn Christmas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492667223
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	160,812
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Diana Murray is the author of One Snowy Day of which the Tulsa Book Review wrote: “Youngsters will love this book and so will the adults who read it to them." Diana grew up in New York and still lives nearby with her family. Visit her online at dianamurray.com.

Luke Flowers is an illuminator of the imagination that spends his days (and most nights) in his cozy creative cave illustrating and writing children’s books. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado and you can find him online at lukeflowerscreative.com

Editorial Reviews

05/20/2019

It’s Unicorn Day, a celebration of unicorn pride, style, and having “fun, fun, fun!” Illustrating in ebullient digital art, Flowers renders bipedal unicorns with wide eyes and fabulously styled manes and tails. In a woodland landscape, the unicorns slide down rainbows, dance with butterflies, and catch cupcakes raining from the sky, and a full spread depicts an epic “Glitter Fight!” Tension arrives with the discovery of a horse wearing a pretend horn. The unicorns initially exclude, but the imposter’s tearful response leads them to “give the horse a hug instead.” A joyous, inclusive procession—joining the unicorns and horse are an octopus, human children, an elephant, and a yeti—further emphasize that Unicorn Day is for “unique-orn”s and “younicorns,” too. A song celebrating “cupcakes, sprinkles, cherry tarts, starlight twinkles, glowing hearts” closes out the story. Readers are sure to wish for their own Unicorn Day (and they’ll want to mark their calendars for April 9). Ages 4–8. (June)

Publishers Weekly

2019-03-17
Fabled equines party and play in a bright confection of a picture book.

"Hooray! Hooray! It's Unicorn Day!" In galloping rhyming text that mostly scans, a community of chipper, bright-eyed unicorns obeys the three rules of Unicorn Day: "Show off your horn," "Fluff up that hair," and "Have fun, fun, fun!" They dance, frolic with butterflies, and of course eat cupcakes. But then they discover an interloper: A dun-colored quadruped, with a horn suspiciously attached with string, is outed as a horse. He mopes off, but the unicorns come running after—"they don't want to lose a friend!"—and his horn is tied back on. With tension limited to a page turn, this very minor climax is resolved immediately. Then it's back to the fun, as lots of other creatures (human children, a rainbow octopus, a Yeti, and more) join the unicorn parade with their own tied-on horns. Is this an allegory about straight people at pride parades? An argument that appropriation is OK sometimes? Should one read meaning into the identity of the only brown "unicorn"? Or is it just a zany, philosophy-free, sugar-fueled opposite-of-a-bedtime story? Regardless of subtext, conscious or otherwise, kiddie readers hungry for fluff will be drawn to the bright, energetic illustrations as to cotton candy.

Give this to the sparkle- and cupcake-obsessed child in your life. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews