Book
Donut : the unicorn who couldn't fly / story by Laura Gehl ; art by Andrea Zuill.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593376256
- ISBN: 0593376250
- ISBN: 9780593376263
- ISBN: 0593376269
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Studio, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-8. Random House Children's Books. Grades K-1. Random House Children's Books. BR20L Lexile Decoding demand: 0 (very low) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 6 (very low) Structure demand: 2 (very low) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 1.6 0.5 517158. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Unicorns > Juvenile fiction. Flight > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Stories in rhyme > Juvenile literature. |
| Genre: | Picture books. Stories in rhyme. Fantasy fiction. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Public Library | E GEH (Text) | 32311111197764 | Early Reader Fiction | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Donut : The Unicorn Who Wants to Fly
Publishers Weekly
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Donut wants to fly, but actually doing so is another matter entirely: despite valiant efforts and a supportive forest friend group, the unicorn remains stubbornly earthbound. Gehl (The Hiking Viking) chronicles these attempts through brief rhyming snippets, as in a sequence in which Donut tries a set of wings that the animal friends fashion from leaves, twigs, and vines: "Donut sails!/ Donut flails!" leads, a page turn later, to "Donut wails!" Finally, the group hits on a winning idea: building a nestlike basket in which the birds can carry the unicorn into the sky (amid what looks like a hot air balloon festival). Given the minimal text, art by Zuill (Regina Is NOT a Little Dinosaur) does a lot of heavy lifting, literally and figuratively, and it excels on both counts: her elegant ink line, enhanced with warm digital color, articulates moments of slapstick, ingenuity, despair, and triumph. Donut is awkward, funny, and sweet, with a big pink nose and a long fringe, and the unicorn's lessons of persistence, kindness, and collaboration land with the lightness of a zephyr. Ages 4--8. Agent (for Gehl and Zuill): Erzsi Deak, Hen&ink. (Apr.)
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