Pick up a few to share after you have read this story! Just pumpkin patch fun and lots of apple cider donuts. It's kind of Halloween-ish because they are carving pumpkins but there's no trick-or-treating. I think this is a great book to show kids both sides of being a little bit scared of creepy things. In this adventure, she and Sparkle visit a pumpkin patch! Lucy is pretty brave while Sparkle is more on the timid side. But then she and Sparkle bond and become best buddies. In the first book - Lucy wants a pet unicorn and she gets Sparkle - who is not her idea of what a unicorn looks like.
I love all of the Sparkle books! If you have not met Sparkle, he is Lucy's pet unicorn. Recommended to fans of Lucy and Sparkle, and to picture-book readers looking for unicorn and/or Halloween stories. The final scene, in which Sparkle gives out a rainbow-colored fart, will have young children giggling. The artwork here is cute, in a cartoon-like style, and captures the spooky but humorous fun. Halloween is a time for tricks, but it's worth recalling that not everybody enjoys being frightened, even in jest. This story might be used to launch a discussion with young children about being considerate to others, when they don't enjoy the same things we do. I also appreciated that she gets a taste of her own medicine, when she too thinks the Pumpkin Monster is coming after her. The story is engaging, with some delicious thrills and a happy ending, and I appreciated the fact that Lucy quickly realizes her mistake, and sets out to correct it. After enjoying the first two books and finding the third a bit of a miss, I was curious to see what I would make of this fourth entry in the series.
Where can he hide.?Ī Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Pumpkin Monster is the fourth of author/illustrator Amy Young's picture-book to feature this girl/unicorn duo, following upon A Unicorn Named Sparkle, A New Friend for Sparkle and A Unicorn Named Sparkle's First Christmas. When Lucy inadvertently scares Sparkle away, the frightened unicorn heads to the pumpkin patch, until he hears an eerie noise that he believes must be the Pumpkin Monster. Picking out pumpkins together, and then carving them, the two discover that while Lucy had a penchant for the spooky, Sparkle prefers the sweet and friendly. Lucy and her unicorn companion Sparkle head to Pat's Pumpkin Farm for a fun autumn day in this sweetly magical seasonal adventure.
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