Books like There's a Unicorn in Your Book
By Tom Fletcher
There's a Unicorn in Your Book turns a rough patch into something your kid can actually fix, tracing a finger wand across the page until the unicorn's worry gremlin backs off and the singing starts again. It's silly and sparkly, but the fix-it feeling underneath is real. Here are more books for kids who like being asked to help.
No finger wand here, just poems that turn a gray day into lemon yellow. Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess still runs on wild imagination.
Instead of one worried unicorn, Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda hands your kid a whole mask for every mood, glad to mad.
Turn the book upside down and sideways to follow the fall. Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor keeps the same joyful nerve unicorn needed to sing again.
If your kid likes cheering someone out of a bad mood, Pete the Cat's Groovy Imagination: A Groovy Adventure About Pete the Cat Using His Imagination in a World of Creative Play by Kimberly Dean does it with a cardboard box instead of a sad unicorn.
An old man watches his town of Wartville drown in litter — cans, bottles, and newspapers piling up everywhere — until he discovers he has a strange power to fight back against the mess.
A fact-packed exploration of surprising overlaps between humans and animals, from ticklish laughing rats to elephants holding funerals, crows using cars as tools, and bees voting on where to build their nests.
Save The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce for a slower night. It carries the same tender comfort through sadness, but it lingers longer than a quick worry-gremlin fix.
A little girl climbs seven flights of stairs to her apartment, imagining wilder and stranger lives behind every neighbor's door than the one she actually lives behind.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw strips the magic down to one shifting shape and a question on every page, no wand required to keep guessing.
A seven-year-old girl gets separated from her family inside The Met and must find her way back by spotting specific artworks hidden throughout galleries of Greek and Roman art, Ancient Egypt, and Modern art.
The same push-a-button delight, but Lift by Minh Lê turns it into a whole new world instead of a unicorn's mood swing.
Fingers do the work again, this time hunting embossed dragons instead of soothing one shy unicorn. Where's the Dragon? by Jason Hook keeps hands busy on every page.
