Light, Cute, & Funny --Picture Book Blog

A be-your-self adventure story, WEE UNICORN by Meg McLaren blends comic and conventional storytelling to tell a magic and fantasy story.

Characters: Wee Unicorn the cute but very loud protagonist; wise mountains, teasing selkies, strangest creature.

Themes: discovery--finding your superpower

Conflict: the page turns are driven by the protagonist's search for the strangest creature to fix her mistake

Plot: Wee Unicorn is introduced, and we learn that she is a different kind of unicorn.

She is teased for being different and in turn hurts the strangest creature.

Feeling remorseful, she searches for the strangest creature. On her journey, she learns it is best to be your true self.

Perspective: third-person narrator with first-person dialogue

Setting: Imaginary northern Scotland

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