Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 12, 2014

One track mind, here.

There is a book being released in September that I think Marigold might enjoy. Though she may not like having second billing in the title.

That’s it! Marigold needs to go to school!

Where do you find a school desk for a Unicorn?

There are actually very few human books about unicorns. “The Last Unicorn”, “The Magic of Oz”, “Merry Go Round in Oz”, and “The Last Battle” are all I can think of, offhand, and only the first has a unicorn in the starring role. One more if you count the unicorn in “Through the Looking Glass”, but I’ve always seen that one as a bit of animated heraldry, and consequently not quite real. (But perhaps Marigold will correct me.)

I’m surprised no one has mentioned The Unicorn in the Garden By James Thurber

Is The Unicorn in the Garden at all related to The Elephant in the Room?

There’s also The Firebringer Trilogy which features unicorns as the main characters. I read one of the books in high school, and am considering downloading their Kindle counterparts soonish.

Alan Dean Foster wright a short story about a Dark Unicorn.

Agreed Phoebe.

There’s also the books based on My Little Pony. They may not be classics, but they still have unicorns.

Piers Anthony’s Phaze trilogy has entire tribes of unicorns. Marigold might feel threatened – their horns can make music.

MORAL: Don’t count your boobies before they’re hatched.

Mercedes Lackey’s Fairy Godmother series includes some rather mindless (but noble) unicorns.

is it a book report on Peter Rabbit?

Or Robin Hood. And there were vegetables in the garden.

But how many of these unicorns are actually characters? The one in The Unicorn in the Garden certainly isn’t; it’s just a bit of stage dressing, a prop, a MacGuffin.

I’m a little surprised how it could be forgotten — In The Once and Future King, the Orkney children, who would later grow up to be Knights at Arthur’s Table, make the effort to hunt a Uicorn, just like in the classic tapestry