No doubt like many others, we are in the middle of home schooling children alongside work and life’s other juggles. Our daughter has a book that is read each week at school and activities that relate to this. Recently there was another book within her study pack for the week. It was a gift from the local newsagents for each child in her class. It was a copy of Thelma the Unicorn. Another horse book for the collection – thanks Edgars Newsagency!
Thelma is a horse that dreams of being a unicorn. Although her best friend Otis indicates he likes her just the way she is, Thelma dreams of being more. A carrot in the paddock allows the horse to fulfil a dream of being a unicorn as it poses for a horn on her head. Then an accident with a truck full of paint and glitter turns her into the most beautiful unicorn.
And so starts Thelma’s journey to fame as locals fall for the beautiful unicorn. Thelma finds in time though that being as beautiful as she desires isn’t all that she had thought it would be.
Thelma the Unicorn is a lovely rhyming tale for young readers. It explores the fact that we should embrace who we are and learn to love this. The illustrations are engaging for children and the simple, rhyming sentences make it easy for them to follow.
Author: Aaron Blabey
Fiction – children
In My Library? It is, though it’s in my daughter’s, technically 🙂
“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Mesmerized by a Horse Whisperer