A Unicorn Named Sparkle's First Christmas (A Unicorn Named Sparkle #3)

by Amy Young (Author) Amy Young (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

It's Sparkle's first Christmas and Lucy is showing him how to celebrate. Make a snowman. Check. Make a unicorn snowman. Check. Hang stockings, make cookies, and, of course--buy presents! (But don't eat them.) Check. In pure Sparkle fashion, nothing goes as planned, but Lucy ends up learning that love-- not presents-- is what Christmas is all about.

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Kirkus Reviews

The joy of giving permeates Lucy's first Christmas with her unicorn in this series third after A New Friend for Sparkle. Lucy is a little girl of color with light brown skin and springy black hair. Merry and bright.

Publishers Weekly

In Sparkle's third book, the "unicorn" is getting ready for Christmas under the tutelage of Lucy, a vivacious girl with wiry black curls. Actually, Sparkle is eating the Christmas preparations because, despite his unicorn horn (it resembles a cone-shaped birthday hat), there's a good chance he's actually a goat. Lucy gets Sparkle presents at "the unicorn store," but Lucy is disappointed to find no gift from Sparkle on Christmas morning, and he eats the stockings and pulls down the Christmas tree. After shouting and tears, it turns out Sparkle did get her a gift, and it's the most magical of all. The relationship between Sparkle and Lucy remains perfectly enchanting. Ages 2-6. (Sept.)

Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.

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Amy Young
Amy Young was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and though she trained and practiced as a lawyer, she has always wanted to be an artist. She is the author and illustrator of A Unicorn Named Sparkle. She lives in Spring Lake, Michigan, with her husband.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374308131
Lexile Measure
450
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
September 20, 2018
Series
A Unicorn Named Sparkle
BISAC categories
JUV002270 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical
JUV017010 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Christmas & Advent
Library of Congress categories
Christmas stories
Gifts
Unicorns
Christmas
Goats

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