Sugarlump and the Unicorn

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I’ve written a song to go with the book and it’s now available on Spotify and other streaming platforms. My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.

The unicorn ended up turning Sugarlump into a fairground horse on a carousel, where Sugarlump was apparently happy and exclaimed “this is the life for me”. But after trotting around the farm, galloping around a racetrack and even dancing at the circus, Sugarlump learns to be careful what he wishes for. Each time Sugarlump has his wish granted by the unicorn and the result is always the same, Sugarlump is never satisfied with his lot and always wants more for himself. Here is where the adventure unfolds as he discovers what it’s like to be a race horse, a circus horse and so on. But when a magical unicorn grants his wish, he soon discovers there's no match for the fun of playing with playing with children.It is about a horse could sugar lump as she goes on a journey to try different activities but soon decides they are not who she wants to be. The story follows the interaction between a rocking horse Sugarlump and a unicorn that kept granting Sugarlump’s wishes by turning it into a different “type” of horse whenever Sugarlump feels discontent with his life. Sugarlump and the Unicorn” is another brilliant children’s book from the author of the world famous “Gruffalo”, Julia Donaldson. So the magic unicorn transforms him into a race horse - but still, Sugarlump isn't quite sure if this life is right for him.

This book has a poetic style with rhyming and repeated phrases, engaging the children with the story.

She does move on but some of the activities lack excitement and glamour and do not live up to the fun of playing with the children. Published in 2013, 'Sugarlump and the Unicorn' is a magical tale of a rocking horse transformed into a real horse by a unicorn, all told in a charming rhyming style with excellent illustrations. When the loads became too heavy, Sugarlump wanted to gallop free, so the unicorn turned him into a racing horse. I do wonder however whether all horses would end up sad and unhappy like Sugarlump because no role seemed to be perfect (seeing Sugarlump’s track record, I think he is going to get dizzy and bored soon turning round and round at the same merry-go-round, listening to the same old music).

I think it is an ideal book for shared reading as there is so much the book offers in material to talk about with children aside from the pictures. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. That said, I'm sure there are kids out there who need to realize that they have worth and purpose too.Now, Sugarlump is a farm horse out in the fields - but he soon finds his new life hard work, and wishes to be free of his load so he can gallop.

Celebrate 10 years of Sugarlump and the Unicorn, written and illustrated by the bestselling partnership, Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, with this special foiled-cover anniversary edition featuring the much-loved story and brand new bonus content. If I were the unicorn, I probably would turn Sugarlump into a wild feee Mongolian horse that gallops without restraint.

I love reading Julia Donaldson books to my baby sister I love the way she makes her books all glittery and teaches thing like this book it teaches children different types of horses and I love how she makes the unicorn makes the wish I laughed at my sister when she said she wish she had a unicorn to make her wishes I never noticed that the sing mermaid and Sam sly are in the book until my sister pointed it out.