Little Unicorn is Angry: 1 (How Are You Feeling Today?)

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They will firstly start walking down through the woodland where they meet the first three unicorns, they will spend some time brushing, asking questions and being told all about unicorns. This a glorious and sublimely written novel that's full of magic, the power of sisterhood and finding courage. Set between our world and the enchanted land of Arden, it follows Sophie and Claire, two sisters who move to strange old Windemere Manor and climb a ladder in a fireplace. There, they discover a magical world in utter turmoil. The four guilds of magic have lost trust in each other, and worst of all, their unicorns are missing. 4. The Last Unicorn

Where do movies take me? My lord, sometimes they take me to auteur projects like this one, by Paul Matthews, all about how a unicorn can fix up people's lives. Oh David Warner, you deserve better. Joe Penny, too. And man, as much fun as I make of George Hamilton showing up in movies that are horrifyingly bad - Sexette, Evel Knievel and Madusa, I'm looking at you - even he deserves better than this. Man, even Christopher Atkins - The Blue Lagoon anyone? - deserves better! Renaissance figure: the unicorn depicted as a tamed creature with a virgin in a 17th-century fresco. Photograph: De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images Robin obviously doesn’t understand the impact of Trump – or President Trunk as she calls him – but she realises the importance of believing that things will get better and the positive power of imagination. Robin is ill, the sort of ill where people never send her get well cards because they don’t think she will. She’s often in hospital hooked up to canulas, drips and oxygen. When she is, the best way to distract her is films and books. It was in hospital that she first watched Princess Unikitty, that we read Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns and read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in which Voldemort drinks unicorn blood to keep himself alive. This sense of magic, a belief that the extraordinary can happen in bad times is important to her and it’s important to us all.The campaigners directed me to a Chad Valley Toys TV advert of a boy playing with a pink unicorn. It felt weird in that particular way that only gendered things can. I asked Robin if unicorns were girls. She said yes immediately, then paused. Actually some are boys she admitted, looking confused. They come through a portal from a magic world, she added, to clarify matters. But her uncertainty is understandable. They’re slippery creatures. They come in all shades of pastel blue, pink and purple colours. Magical unicorns sleep lying down. Your welcome to bring your own lunch boxes/picnics/party food. We can also supply food, soft drinks for the children will be able FOC The sessions are a hour and half long, in this time the children are put into small groups where they will discover and make their way around three different areas of the magical woodland.

I wandered ahead of everyone else and quite suddenly a noise stopped me. It was something very close and very fast. I stood completely still as a creature as white as starlight bolted past me, almost close enough to touch. It was too little to be a horse, but seemed bigger than a deer, and it felt like it stepped out of thin air. So the unicorn has had commercial value for centuries. Then as a medicinal panacea, now as body glitter and cuddly toys. Which seems a bit of a comedown for the noble creature. It was the pervy old Victorians who turned this sexy beast into a child’s fantasy. “They romanticised many of the bestiary images,” says Lawrence, “though the Victorians actually had unicorn porn, too.” In a time of Trump and terror, we’ve aligned ourselves with the unicorn – a symbol of hope One of the unicorn’s first appearances in fantasy literature was in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking-Glass, and a quote from that has been used and abused on many cute T-shirts for girls in recent years. “Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.” This is a very old, mythical and multi-layered tale. It's an epic fantasy book, more aimed at older and adult readers. But it has a timeless and heart-stirring quality, a tale of love and loss and wonderment which still resonates with readers today. 5. The Unicorn Seekers: Map of Lost Unicorns It's not that I'm expecting to see one galloping through the midnight streets of south London. It's more that my childhood felt touched by their magic, for they've appeared in so many stories, in a myriad of different cultures throughout all of time. We could all describe one, without ever supposedly having encountered one.

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It's bedtime, but one lively little unicorn can't quite settle down and go to sleep! As her dad counts down the minutes to bed, what mischief can she get up to? And of course not forgetting their chance to ride a unicorn around the winding paths of the magical forest, spotting fairies, pixie villages and lots of other magical creatures along the way.