Unicorns 101

by Cale Atkinson (Author)

Unicorns 101
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

A laugh-out-loud picture book that finally sets the record straight about unicorns! Unicorns! You love them, but how much do you really know about them? Join Professors Glitter Pants, Sprinkle Steed, Star Hoof, and Sugar Beard, plus their trusty lab assistant, Pete, as they reveal mind-blowing unicorn facts never before available to the public! For example: * Buttercup Sparklecheeks was the first unicorn to trot on Pluto! * At one time in history, there were dino-corns! * One unicorn accidentally made it rain waffles for a week! * Unicorns have giant slides inside their homes! * Rare and exotic unicorns include the mer-corn and the hamster-corn! Full of eye-popping illustrations and nonstop, sidesplitting laughs--plus a removable Unicorn Scientist diploma at the end of the book--Unicorns 101 will have children eager to enroll, time and time again!

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Kirkus

unicorn fans will find plenty to love.

ALA/Booklist

merits space on every unicorn-lover's reference shelf.

Publishers Weekly

In this effervescent unicorn exposé, Atkinson introduces the four "top unicorn scientists" (lab-coat-clad unicorns themselves), who break down the basics of unicorn-ology. With the essential unicorn anatomy and classification charts on hand (or hoof), the scientists discuss unicorn horns ("Made of 50% magic, 45% mystery, and 5% sugar, unicorn horns are full of unknown and unpredictable powers"), diets, social behavior, varieties, and habitats. An art gallery depicts framed portraits of "history's most famous unicorns," with names such as "Buttercup Sparklecheeks," while another spread offers a cross-section of a unicorn home, its occupants relaxing in a tub, tucked into a rainbow and cloud bed, and reading in a ball pit. Atkinson illustrates in a frenetic cartoon art style, with the bug-eyed, bushy-maned unicorn scientists front-and-center. Readers, too, can earn an advanced degree, with a final spread of this enjoyably off-the-wall story, featuring a "Unicornius Scientificus Diploma." Ages 3-7. (Sept.)

Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.

Review quotes

"A candy-colored palette accompanies this cornucopia (also the name of a group of unicorns) of tidbits.... Delightfully tongue-in-cheek crash course in all things unicorn." —Bulletin
Cale Atkinson
CALE ATKINSON is an illustrator, writer and animator living lakeside with his family in Kelowna, British Columbia, whose books include Sir Simon: Super Scarer, Where Oliver Fits, Monsters 101, Unicorns 101, Simon and Chester: Super Detectives! and Simon and Chester: Super Sleepover!, to name a few. Cale is assisted in his artistic endeavors by Charlie, a wise and noble floof.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781984830364
Lexile Measure
710
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Publication date
September 03, 2019
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV022000 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, & Fables | General
JUV002270 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Picture books
Unicorns
Animals, Mythical

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