Picture Book Review: Unicorn Day

This book, which I am super excited to have my first ever picture book ARC of, is 100% adorable. It is so much fun and has such a great message!

It’s Unicorn Day and that means some serious unicorn partying! There’s singing and dancing and rainbows and cupcakes and glitter, of course, and oh so much color. But you start to notice that one of the unicorns is just a little bit not like the rest. For one thing, he’s pretty much just brown. Secondly, he’s not nearly as graceful or adept at unicorn skills as the others. And finally, his horn seems to be, well… tied on! *gasp* So when a rogue ball of glitter knocks off his horn and reveals him to be a regular ol’ horse, the festivities grind to a screeching halt!

But spoiler alert: instead of them ostracizing him for being different, they embrace him, and the party goes on! This particular section in the book makes me feel so happy every time I read it. It’s such a great message.

And the artwork! When I say there’s a lot of color, I mean it. It’s a visual delight! It’s like candy store level colorful. And the unicorns are sort of adorably goofy looking, which fits the rhyming and happy nature of the story. It’s altogether fabulous. I can’t wait to own it in hardback!

Oh, and Madeline told me it was her favorite book ever this morning. So there’s that!