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Title | Thelma the Unicorn
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Author | Aaron Blabey
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Illustrated By | Aaron Blabey
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2015
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2015
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Title | The Return of Thelma the Unicorn
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Author | AAaron Blabey
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Illustrated By | Aaron Blabey
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2015
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2015
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Category | Children
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Thelma, Otis
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Main Elements | Unicorns
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Website | ---
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 Thelma the Unicorn
From the best-selling author of Pig the Pug comes this joyful book about learning to love who you are... even if you don't have sparkles.
Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma's wish comes true.
She rises to instant international stardom, but at an unexpected cost. After a while, Thelma realizes that she was happier as her ordinary, sparkle-free self. So she ditches her horn, scrubs off her sparkles, and returns home, where her best friend is waiting for her with a hug.
From award-winning author Aaron Blabey comes this joyful book about learning to love who you are...even if you don't have sparkles
The Return of Thelma the Unicorn
Thelma the Unicorn is back and more fabulous than ever!
The whole wide world was overjoyed!
Her fans all went berserk.
But this time Thelma had her friend
and that's what made it work.
The world misses its favorite unicorn, but Thelma is reluctant to don her horn and sparkles again. However, with the support of her best friend Otis, she realizes the importance of spreading love and joy -- no matter what people think.
Bestselling author Aaron Blabey's sweet and funny follow-up to Thelma the Unicorn will have young readers cheering for Thelma and Otis as they learn to love who they are... even if they don't have sparkles.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to be famous? To be rich and have adoring fans cheering for you? But what if those fans never leave you alone? You can't do anything without people taking pictures of you, you can't walk down the street without people wanting to touch you. And there will always be the people that don't like you and will say terrible things about you even if they aren't true. Sometimes being in the spotlight isn't all it's cracked up to be, and for all the people around you all the time, it can be a mighty lonely place.
I didn't much care for how the equines were drawn in this book, but it's the kind of book that needs some silly pictures to go with the silly premise (don't ever forget the carrot!) so it worked well enough, I mean Thelma isn't your elegant, delicate, magical unicorn after all, so having a few odd anatomical quirks (like eyes that bulge right out of her face) is appropriate.
March 2020
So the sequel came out (since it took a whole two minutes to read I just picked it up in a bookstore and read it right there and then), apparently Thelma's fans can't live without her and Thelma's friend convinces her that she should go back out there and just ignore the trolls. I dunno, I kind of liked the moral of the first one but the second one is more of a "screw the world and do what you want" which on some level is a good intention, but it's one easily taken too far (i.e. the trolls are themselves doing whatever they want to do too, so there's a fine line where you ignore other people's feelings and when you don't). Thelma's fame is also based on a lie. I'm probably reading too much into this, to be honest I don't think kids really get deep morals from stories like these, its just a cute critters with funny pictures and an engaging rhyme. But I kind of liked the first book where she was happy just with her friend, and didn't need to be famous and adored and glittery to feel good about herself.
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