Dreams Can Come True! Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn by Shannon Hale

KITTY THINKS SHE MIGHT BE A UNICORN.

With cardboard and glue, yarn and some poster paints, she creates a just-her-size unicorn horn and with her itty-bitty horn on top of her fuzzy fur, Kitty fancies she had become...

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But her co-pets, Parakeet and Gecko, beg to differ. She's a cat, they agree. They point out her fuzzy fur and her tiny little tail. They tell her she has soft kitty paws with claws, not hard hooves that prance! Itty-Bitty Kitty puffs out her tail....:

NEIGH! NEIGH!!"YOU'RE A CAT!" SAID PARAKEET.

"THAT'S THAT!" ECHOED GECKO!

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But that's not that! Just as Kitty-Korn sadly takes off her horn, they hear it...

CLOP! CLOP! CLOP!

"NOW THAT'S A UNICORN!" CRIES GECKO!

And Kitty-Corn is happy to find out that the Unicorn likes her fuzzy fur, tiny tail and her crafted unicorn horn, and they play all afternoon until at last their merging shadows rest together in the setting sun, in Shannon Hale's Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn (Abrams Books, 2021), illustrated in completely unashamed, totally adorable, pink cuteness by artist Leyuen Pham. Fanciful dreams can make for good fun in this book for young unicorn fanciers. Writes Publisher Weekly, "What ostensibly starts out as an almost criminally cute tale of pretend play transforms into something much more: a celebration of claiming and naming one’s identity and having it affirmed by others."