Review - Today I'll Be a Unicorn

Today I'll Be a Unicorn (Phoebe and Her Unicorn)
by Dana Simpson
Date: 2018
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Reading level: C
Book type: picture book
Pages: 12
Format: e-book
Source: library

In this charming, super-sparkly board book, the stars of Phoebe and Her Unicorn celebrate the magical and enchanting world of being a unicorn, along with reminding young readers that being yourself is pretty great, too.

Who wouldn’t want to be a unicorn? You get to trot majestically through meadows, perch high up on rainbows, and wear tiaras made of starlight. Phoebe lists all the wonderful things she’ll get to do and can hardly contain her excitement about having a tail and magic horn. That is, until she learns that unicorns like to eat hay instead of pizza. Maybe she’ll be a unicorn tomorrow instead!

(synopsis from Goodreads)

I think this one loses something in translation to e-book format. The synopsis describes it as a super-sparkly board book, but of course there are no sparkles to be had in the digital format.

It's also very short. It's cute, but it's almost like someone took a couple of panels of the comic that's featured in the full-length books and stretched it out to make a picture book. There's nothing wrong with it, and it will be a nice way to introduce much younger kids to the characters, but it's probably not going to have a lot of appeal to the kids who are reading the full comic collections.

Premise: 3/5
Meter: n/a
Writing: 3/5
Illustrations: 4/5
Originality: 3/5

Enjoyment: 3/5

Overall: 3.17 out of 5