Donut: The Unicorn Who Wants to Fly by Laura Gehl, Andrea Zuill
Published by Random House Studio on April 12, 2022
ISBN: 0593376250
Pages: 40
Genres: Animals, Fantasy, Humor
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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Donut: The Unicorn Who Wants to Fly is a story about perseverance and friendship shown by the trials and tribulations of Donut, a unicorn who is determined to fly and tries myriad methods that fail until, with the help of their friends, pulls together a beautiful flying contraption and sails away happily.

This picture book utilizes simple rhyming while also weaving in a graphic novel’s sensibility in using only pictures and symbols to convey meaning, which makes it a good entry into graphic novels for a younger audience. The illustrations are inked and colored beautifully and tell the story with support from the text, rather than the other way around. This would be a good read aloud for Pre K-1 but even younger children would enjoy the colorful illustrations about a unicorn yearning for flight.

Reviewed by Mary Randall, Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth