Books like Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows
By Jessika von Innerebner
For the kid who feels like they have to be cheerful even when their whole day is falling apart, Kevin's rough morning will feel instantly familiar. Silly, relatable, and full of exaggerated bad-day energy with a warm, honest heart underneath.
After happily-ever-after turns out to be anything but, a discontented prince sets off to find a witch who can turn him back into a frog — but every witch he meets has other plans.
A boy named Billy Bixbee finds a tiny dragon in his bedroom, but when his mom insists dragons don't exist, the ignored dragon just keeps growing bigger and bigger.
A rhyming picture book lists all the things boys and girls are supposed to like — football, fairy songs, kittens, ballet — then flips each expectation with three cheerful words: except when they don't.
Bored with being an emu, a zoo bird tries out life as a seal, a lion, and a snake — before discovering that being himself suits him best.
A number who counts for nothing tags along with the counting numbers, who mock him as worthless — until Roman numerals threaten them all and only Zero can save the day.
A laid-back cat wears his favorite shirt with four groovy buttons, and one by one they keep popping off — but instead of crying, he just keeps singing his groovy song.
A New York City boy dreads his family's move out West, convinced he'll have to ride a horse to school, dodge buffaloes, and avoid cactus everywhere he sits.
A box of crayons argues over their different colors, each one grumbling about another — until they discover that working together lets them create a single beautiful picture.
A crayon labeled red is actually blue inside, and no matter how hard he tries — drawing strawberries, mixing orange with a classmate — he just can't make red marks, until a new friend sees him differently.
A chimpanzee named Jim wakes up in a bad mood on a beautiful day, and his well-meaning friends keep insisting he shouldn't feel that way at all.
A young bunny tired of cooked carrots and his big ears decides to leave home and try life as a bear, a bird, or a pig instead — searching for where he really belongs.
A gentle duckbill dinosaur egg lands in the wrong nest, hatching among fearsome tyrannosauruses who mock him as Tyrannosaurus Drip for preferring water weed over meat.
