Phoebe and her unicorn get a treehouse and try to start a club in it with Max. Phoebe gets in (slight) trouble for doodling on her math homework (and Marigold makes the doodles animated, which was fun). Marigold envies humans’ opposable thumbs, but won’t admit it. Phoebe looses her shadow for a day. The unicorn gets invited to a family reunion, and feels anxious about attending. When she finally meets her parents (no explanation why her earliest memories start at boarding school), they’re all so nervous they exude excessive sparkles. Marigold is shocked to find how much she resembles her parents and determines to go through a rebellious phase just to stand out- but she’s pretty bad at it. Marigold then decides that Phoebe is an honorary unicorn and gives her a new name (to be used in formal, magical situations) but Phoebe is mildly insulted. Phoebe finds out that many unicorns believe humans simply don’t exist. Unicorn conspiracy theories, ha.
Finally one that made me laugh out loud again. I even showed pages of it to my husband, and he got a few chuckles too.
Borrowed from the public library.
