Margaret's Unicorn

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The unicorn joins in with Margaret's daily life and they both grow accustomed to their new life together. Margaret’s whole world changes when her family moves to a cottage by the sea to be near her grandma. I also didn't appreciate the implications of losing the magic in your life as you grow up or make new friends.

Margaret’s family is sensitive and loving as she struggles to adjust to life in a new town and it made me so happy that they accept the magic that Margaret encounters in her life when she finds a baby unicorn accidentally left behind when the herd passed through their quiet countryside. 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. Two minor disappointing details, the text for one illustration tells you they are picking up and feeling a horse chestnut but the whole page illustration shows you a sweet chestnut tree and sweet chestnut, which looks very different and one is edible and the other isn't. Another page shows and tells you, that you can tell it is spring because the gorse bushes have just started to flower.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.

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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details.

Briony May Smith is a British illustrator who specialises in children's books, concept art and character designs in Animation and Advertising. I also greatly appreciated the fact that Margaret didn't get to "keep" the unicorn - that he is depicted as a wild and free magical being, one that might need help from time to time, but that must be allowed to rejoin his kind. edible chestnuts), especially since Horse Chestnuts are currently under siege by a species of Pseudomonas which causes deadly 'bleeding cankers', as well as by leaf-blotch fungus and a leaf-mining moth. The illustrations really make this such a magical book for me and I’m sure many children and adults will love looking at each of the pictures and taking in all the different things you can see!