The Night of the Unicorn is a wonderful tale about love and the forces of good and evil. Aimed at young readers aged 6-16 the story follows a young girl Kat, who is made miserable by her parents arguments.

As their bickering increases, Kat retreats further into her own magical world which suddenly becomes real when she is befriended by a unicorn.

Together they fly headlong through the mist into a mystical world, which at first seems like paradise. Kat soon finds that paradise is not necessarily an escape; problems exist there as well. To find her way back home she must learn to focus upon the love and light within.

I applaud this book; it reaches out to children and illustrates the amazing power of love. The lessons contained within its pages could easily be incorporated into everyday life, if we so chose. 

I believe the authors use this story to address an ideal more universal. When each of us play our part and choose to live with love and light as our focus, our combined strength will tip human nature’s balance to be weighted in love, not fear.

Two quotes capture this book perfectly. Kat questions why adults lose their belief in magic. Her newly found friend replies, ‘...in an effort to protect their children, parents encourage them to aim low, for fear of disappointment, you tend to get what you expect, you know’.

In the second quote, Kat bemoans her parents. ‘...when people’s dreams come true, the responsibility of keeping the dream alive is too hard, instead of enjoying it, they just worry all the time about what they’d do if they lost it’.

More or less half way through this book, I suddenly visualised the whole thing on the big silver screen. An ant befriends Kat, he commands hundreds and thousands of tiny shiny bodies, their tiny feet march forward thumping louder and louder, the noise becomes deafening... it is definitely a film just waiting to be made.

Reading this story served to remind me that spiritual guidance is an important part of parental responsibility. The stresses and strains of everyday life have a way of taking over the driving seat when we do not pay attention.

The Night of the Unicorn is a wonderful fantasy for bedtime reading, children will drift off to sleep and dream sweetly. For parents, the book’s message will linger long into the night.

The Night of the Unicorn, by Jenny and Tony Smedley
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Publisher O Books (24 Jan 2008) http://www.o-books.com/

ISBN-10 1846940346

ISBN-13 978-1846940347

Paperback: 130 pages

To contact Jenny Smedley’s PA, Diane Gordon info@author.globalnet.co.uk

Her website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~author/readings.htm

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