It's perfect-except he still hears the monster's fearsome cry and quakes in terror so much the pumpkin detaches from its vine and careens down a hill. Sparkle hides hearing a terrifying wail, he concludes it's a "pumpkin monster." Opening a large pumpkin, Sparkle steps inside, creating a perfect new hideaway.
Decorating pumpkins is the unicorn's least fun activity of all: His (carved with his horn) looks happy, but Lucy's is scary, frightening him so much that he races into the darkened pumpkin patch, a worried Lucy calling after him. They play games eat treats, which Sparkle loves and have spooky encounters, which Sparkle doesn't. Lucy and her unicorn, Sparkle, anticipate fun at a pumpkin farm. "Who knew a unicorn could be a scaredy-cat?
Young's exuberant illustrations chronicle the unicorn's misadventures with abundant humor and heart-illuminating the two pals' endearing mutual affection." Ages 2-6. Terrified, the unicorn runs away, his fear escalating at nightfall when he hears a wailing sound that he mistakenly assumes is a "pumpkin monster." A rollicking escapade follows, and eventually a cozy reunion with Lucy that underlines Sparkle's strengths. Sparkle's hijinks kick into high gear after he and Lucy arrive home with selected pumpkins-he carves a "cheerful and happy" face on his, but she creates a scary grimace. Agent: Linda Pratt, Wernick & Pratt."In Young's fourth tale starring comically squat pet unicorn Sparkle, he and child Lucy visit a pumpkin farm on a day when "the air was crisp and Sparkle felt frisky." He immediately acts on those feelings, trying to eat his way out of the corn maze and consuming multiple treats before realizing that he isn't such a fan of the frightening. Her message to readers is clear: self-awareness and finding a soul mate don’t always come easily. “She had to admit: sometimes he made her smile and sometimes he made her laugh,” writes Young ( Don’t Eat the Baby!), whose storytelling and watercolor cartooning are spot-on in their comic timing. Clearly, Sparkle will never be the flashy showpiece Lucy dreamed of-but maybe Lucy isn’t the dainty princess type, either. Come to think of it, he’s as stubborn as Lucy, with her relentless insistence that Sparkle is really a unicorn and therefore should wear a flower necklace and tutu (both of which prove edible). He also smells like a goat, eats like a goat, and is stubborn like a goat. The specimen that shows up, however, looks a lot like a goat. After sending away for a mail-order unicorn (only 25 cents!), Young’s heroine, Lucy, fantasizes about naming him Sparkle, garlanding him with flowers, and riding over rainbows on his back.
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