Margaret's Unicorn

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Detail wise I appreciated that the protagonist, a little girl, plays with dinosaurs and learns about making and separating from friends through this narrative.

The day they move into the big, empty place with its weird smells, Margaret's mother puts a thermos of hot chocolate into Margaret's hands and sends her out to explore within the agreed-upon boundaries. Her Author-Illustrated picture book, 'Margaret's Unicorn,' publishes this year with Schwartz and Wade Books.Margaret and the unicorn are there for one another when they both feel alone and friendless, but they both grow through the year and new relationships await. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. At one point Margaret says something about picking a sprig of heather, holding out her palm, and letting the unicorn eat it off her hand. It's an important message for children that wild creatures are never "ours" -- they deserve their freedom -- but we can have a special connection with them, nonetheless. While looking out to sea, Margaret sees a roiling mist that isn't mist, it's cloud, only it's not clouds, it's a herd of passing unicorns.

If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. Scotch broom also flowers year-round in British Columbia, where it has naturalized as an invasive species, but this didn't bug me as much as the wrong species (conkers vs. She brings it home, and everyone in the family has a hand in helping to raise it during the year the unicorn herd is gone--Grandmother, Mom, and Dad, besides Margaret.

Then one misty day, watching a cloud of seeming unicorns fly by, she discovers a baby unicorn in the grass, apparently left behind by the herd. I don’t expect this to be a five star for everyone – like I said, it just happened to be a kindred spirit read for me and one of my favorite books I’ve read this year! Margaret, lonely and in need of a friend, brings him home and cares for him through the fall and winter.