If you lovely readers have not noticed I have been trying to keep this blog to the first book in a book series. This is what made sense to me when I was planning this writing adventure, but this had led to some lengthy gaps. Life on my end has gone quite busy, and since the books I have been reading have not been the first in their respective series I thought I'd blog about a children's book to simply keep the blog alive.
This book was introduced to me when I was in Kindergarten. This may be the reason I love fantasy. To my child brain this book was magical. I loved the unicorns, the journey, and the crystals. It was a sweet, innocent story that opened my mind to the world of fantasy. I immediately went home and asked my mother to get me this book, but not surprisingly she was unable to find it.
Looking back it is easy to see why she was unable to find it. As a child I did not have the name of the book or the author. I just told her what the book was about, and it probably was not the best description either. It also appears that this book was published in 1985. By the looks of this book, The Unicorn Who Had No Horn was a cheap book that most likely was not sold as well as children's books like Dr. Seuss. Even today this book proved difficult to find.
This book must be special since it stayed in the back of my mind through grade school, high school, and college. Eventually I was wanting to read it again so bad that I simply sat down till a few hours later I found it (and even then I wasn't 100% sure it was the right book).
Re-reading the book was a magical experience, but it did not hold me the way it did back then. The book is about a unicorn who has no horn and goes on a journey to find it. She travels far and eventually she finds a field of crystals. There she finds the crystal that is to be her horn, but she is unable to take it because she cannot offer anything in return. Thus, the unicorn cries, but her tears become flowers. The crystals are so happy they give her the crystal that becomes her horn.
As a child I accepted all of these things as they were. As an adult I am left wanting more. Why was her horn made of crystal? What makes this horn more special than the rest? Why was she born this way? These are answers I'll never know. As far as children books go this is not my favorite; it's not even the best. Still, there's something magical about it, and all children should be introduced into fantasy the way I was (even if it is not with this book). I give it a 5.8 out of 10.
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