When a friend gave me a book called Unikorn with the image of a white puffy cloud unicorn on the cover, I read it immediately.
Unikorn, published in 2021 by Scout Comics and Entertainment Inc., created and written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin is a graphic novel written for young adults.
As such, it is definitely not in a genre that I usually read. But I kept reading and was pulled into the story. My friend, who I know through the Unitarian Universalist and vegan communities, knows that I am interested in all things unicorn.
Unicorns are magical creatures that disappear in times of strife which we are in now. It’s no surprise that unicorns are so popular because people are searching for the good. In the Middle Ages, most people routinely believed in the existence of unicorns.
In Unikorn, I was moved by a passage on the feelings of animals.
When the teenage girl narrator goes into the creature’s stall, the author writes in conversational bubbles:
“He felt your compassion.
“Animals don’t speak in words
“But understand emotion perfectly.”
When the narrator asks, “What’s that thing on his head?”
The caretaker of the farm responds:
“Just one of the many things that makes him special.”
In the end, the unicorn leads people to be more kind to each other. And when the last page was turned, the Unikorn did not disappoint. I thoroughly recommend Unikorn, published by Scout Comics and Entertainment Inc., and created and written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin. It is a force for good in the world.
This is Janet Mason with reviews for Book Tube.
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Janet Mason, author 