Title A Unicorn on a Unicycle Series --- Author Lynda Graham-Barber Illustrator Jordan Wray Publisher Peachtree Publishing Company - 2022 First Printing Peachtree Publishing Company - 2022 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Unicorn Main Elements Unicorns

A unicorn, animals driving cars, and fireworks! Counting numbers is a ton of razzle-dazzle fun for everyone!

Follow along with a cool cast of critters as they parade down a road, led by unicorn a unicycle. Let’s count all the wheels on their scooters, bikes, and cars as they go by! 1, 2, 3… How many wheels can you see at the Zoom-Zoom-Whee Jamboree?

Math lovers will enjoy searching each spread for wheels to count as they’re introduced to a variety of vehicles alongside their 1 through 10 numbers. Each time a new animal joins the unicorn's parade, critical thinkers can be encouraged to keep cumulative track of the total number of wheels.

BONUS CONTENT: Grow with numbers 1 through 100 on the endpapers!

With so many opportunities to use the book beyond rote memorization, you'll want to grab this jolly read for your little learner's bookshelf today!

Meh, another badly illustrated children's unicorn book. Do they teach this at illustration school that all the artists learn to draw worse than their target audience? Why do unicorns have to be ugly? Just click around my reviews and see that it is in fact possible to have really beautiful art, you just have to find books published before the year 2000 when people forgot how to draw. Can't even blame the pandemic, must be a Y2k but that affected illustrators...

The text is ok, I mean its a counting book so there's not too much to comment on, just creative ways of finding vehicles with unusual number of wheels (7 was fun, it was a two truck pulling another truck that was missing a wheel), and then a giant panorama at the end where there were lots of vehicles with wheels, but also a Wheel of Fortune and a Ferris Wheel to trick kids up which I thought was fun.

It can also double as a book on different things with wheels, and kids that are into cars and trucks would enjoy it too. After all its not really about unicorns, the unicorn is on every page but that's just because the characters accumulate as they go. I must admit when I flipped to 3, the orangutan was not something I was expecting, and that was one big backside on one teeny tiny tricycle :o)

But ugh, authors really need to start demanding better looking art...the colours were good but the unicorn in particular sooo badly drawn...sigh. One can be cute, and cartooney, and stylized without being ugly...In fact, skimming through other books by this author, she lucked out pretty good since the art was amazing on all the rest of her covers...just the poor unicorn that get dumped on these days. Even the dragon counting book looked beautiful.