Recently I downloaded a new horse book to read and review. It’s titled A Warrior In Training: A Unicorn’s Courage and Confidence To Face Any Challenge (The Last Unicorn). In this short story by Jaclyn Dee, Albion the last unicorn is struggling to recognise his worth as an individual.
Luckily Albion has a wonderful best friend – Mira the mermaid. Mira encourages Albion every opportunity she gets. As Albion puts faith in himself and his abilities, he discovers just how much a unicorn can do.
A Warrior In Training: A Unicorn’s Courage and Confidence To Face Any Challenge (The Last Unicorn) is a short story with a valuable lesson for children. The cover illustration helps readers to visualise Albion and his world.
Whilst this story has a good message – and features a unicorn! – there were many, many changes of tense. These occurred within a paragraph and even mid sentence which I found to be rather distracting. Assuming the book is aimed at young readers I would be concerned that while they may be learning a good lesson, they would also be learning incorrect grammar. Otherwise, this story is a good one for young readers and unicorn fans.
Author: Jaclyn Dee
Fiction – children
In My Library? As an eBook.
“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. – Mark Helprin
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