Title Claire and the Unicorn Happy Ever After Series --- Author B.G. Hennessy Illustrator Susan Mitchell Publisher Simon Schuster - 2005 First Printing Simon Schuster - 2005 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Claire, Capricorn Main Elements Unicorns

Once Upon A Time, a little girl called Claire and her stuffed unicorn, Capricorn, were very fond of fairy tales. Every night Claire's father read them stories of frog princes and fairy princesses, and every night every character lived happily ever after. Then one evening, just as a story came to its close, Claire suddenly wondered: What, exactly, makes someone happy forever? It was a question to answer as she slept. So Claire hugged Capricorn, and together they drifted into a dreamland adventure....

A very complicated question, what does it mean to live happily ever after. Is it the same for everyone or does everyone have different things that make them happy? As Claire rides Capricorn through various familiar fairy tales children learn that everyone is different and they don't all like the same things.

The artwork is nice a sparkly, with lots of things going on in the background to keep an eye for (like a bunny reading a book about carrots). And I liked the fact that one of the people asked about what made them happy was a librarian, after I all, I kind of think books should make people happy too :)