srivalli's profile picture

srivalli 's review for:

My Girly Unicorn by J Pedicini
4.0

My Girly Unicorn is an adventure story of a unicorn with a mass of colorful hair and a purple horn. The girly unicorn is ignored and bullied by other unicorns in the rainbow playground. But when the cloud monsters hide the sun and flood the place, the unicorns are scared and have nowhere to go. It’s up to the girly unicorn to save the day.

The book deals with bullying by friends for being different. It shows how the bullies ultimately needed the girly unicorn to save them. It talks of doing your thing even if no one supports you and being confident to take on the obstacles and tide over them.

The illustrations are bright, colorful, and oh-so-pretty. The book is in portrait (vertical) orientation with the text printed below the illustrations (almost as a footnote). The rhyming verse was going great until I stumbled at one point. Sigh!

Nevertheless, My Girly Unicorn should be picked up for the illustrations. The gray looming clouds have such cutely wicked smiles and vampire-ish teeth, lol.

I received an ARC from NetGalley, Newhall Publishing Co., and Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles, and am voluntarily leaving a review.

#MyGirlyUnicorn #NetGalley