Somewhere between the Quiet Mountains and a bright blue waterfall lies Wildberry Forest, a beautiful place to live. It is also the home of Ugo the Unicorn, who is one of the unique and special animals living in his herd of fellow unicorns. But Ugo looks a little different than the rest. That is because he is a unicorn without a horn. At times his unicorn friends tease him because of that. Where all the other unicorns use their horns, Ugo isn't able to. That doesn't matter, because Ugo is very good in finding other ways to do these things. Even though his friends tell him it doesn't work that way. But when the next day the unicorns organise the annual hide-and-seek competition they are the ones that seem to have a hard time doing this well because of their long horns. This is where Ugo excells without any difficulty. Ugo was hiding so well, that the other unicorns couldn't find him and they wondered where he would have gone. But what they didn't know was that Ugo was right there in front of them, but very cleverly hidden between the bushes. Even after a while they still hadn't found Ugo and he had the best of times. He was determined to win this competition. Maybe if he'd win this, they would all be a little kinder to him. And so the story continues with Ugo trying to get the other unicorns be a little more kind to him and showing them his talents.

This story perfectly shows kids that it doesn't matter how you look and that everybody has his own talents. In this book kids learn that being themselves can make a friendship even better and that accepting each other for who you are is what matters. Wonderful story and the drawings fitted very well.

The book also features ideas for reading with reading objectives and spoken language objectives. I think this is a very smart way to make a children's book more relatable. Very well done.

Very strong early reader, about a unicorn who finds a unique talent. Ugo has been scorned by all the other unicorns for not having a horn, and so when he walks off, only to find the fairies having a hide-and-seek contest, he manages to stay hidden far longer than the rest when they join in. Evidence for all young readers, then, that we all have hidden abilities, and all our differences are only virtues. A visual style on the lines of a typical Saturday morning cartoon helps this engage, but it's a brief story anyway and will not make anyone regret picking it up. A strong four stars.

My second grader read this quickly while exclaiming aloud her reactions— “that’s so mean!” When referring to the other unicorns and occasional laughter— all good signs.

When I asked her if she liked it she said, yes because it has a lesson.

I personally found it a decent balance of lesson and fun. Would be great for a classroom setting or with a discussion on inclusion and acceptance towards differences: good for grades 1-3, I would estimate.

Thank you NetGalley for an advance copy of this book!