A Unicorn Named Sparkle: A Picture Book

A Unicorn Named Sparkle: A Picture BookWhen Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is too short, he smells funny and oh, he has fleas. Lucy isn't pleased, but in the end she warms up to Sparkle

When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty-five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is too short, he smells funny--and oh, he has fleas. Lucy isn't pleased, but in the end she warms up to Sparkle and realizes that even though he wasn't exactly the unicorn she wanted, he might be just the one she needs.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 07/05/2016
ISBN: 9780374301859
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 10.38h x 8.38w x 0.38d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/25/2016
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2016
School Library Journal 06/01/2016 pg. 86
Shelf Awareness 08/19/2016

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 188885 / Unicorn Named Sparkle
Reading Level: 2.1 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5