The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
From cuddly pool floats to rainbow-colored toast toppings, unicorns--the darlings of Instagram--have never been more exciting or more popular.
Are unicorns real? Their popularity and enduring role in human culture certainly is. How can you win a fight against a unicorn? Why do some unicorns have wings? Why are unicorns often pictured with rainbows? Get answers to these questions and more in this fun look at unicorns throughout history. This four-color, fully illustrated book provides everything you always wanted to know about the myths, science, and history that surround the unicorn, a creature that has grown even more popular in the twenty-first century. With its stylish design and fresh, captivating illustrations, The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns will appeal to readers--children and adults alike--who can't get enough of the world's most elusive animal.
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Laskow explores the mythology and history of unicorns, from their first documented references by ancient Greek and Roman writers to today's ubiquitous unicorn-themed foods, memes, and wearable unicorn horns. Laskow includes works of classic unicorn art, such as medieval tapestries, and explores unicorn legends beyond Europe (India's Rishyasringa is "a unicorn-like man"). Beck's versatile, original illustrations supply a light, modern aesthetic (a bride is pictured wearing a unicorn wedding dress). In addition to the subject's inclusion in literature and art, sections explore the unicorn's potency as a symbol of health, hope, and healing, with the unicorn horn said to have medicinal properties. But are unicorns really real? Laskow describes extinct and existing animals, including narwhals, whose tusks were once mistaken for unicorn horns, and which may account for some unicorn myths. If the mythical animals' enduring resonance proves anything, Laskow suggests, unicorns are in no danger of leaving the realms of collective imagination any time soon. Ages 8 12.
