There's a Unicorn in Your Book: Number 1 picture-book bestseller (Who's in Your Book?)

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In a new anthology, the author of The Last Unicorn and other authors–including Charles de Lint, Nancy Willard, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Eric Lustbader, and Katharine Kerr–contribute short stories about this legendary animal. In On the Nature of Animals ( Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse (iii. Hearthwitch Maggie Brown meets minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. In the series, richly dressed noblemen, accompanied by huntsmen and hounds, pursue a unicorn against mille-fleur backgrounds or settings of buildings and gardens.

Several pieces of furniture in our collections feature unicorns, including a Dutch oak cupboard in the high hall at Crathes Castle that has a grotesque portrait of a unicorn on one panel.there's also a part with ugly, fish-serpent-like mermaids and a secret underwater tunnel in a waterfall cave or something.

Star, a baby unicorn and one of the last eight unicorns on earth, must find a way to help save her friends from the evil dragons. Some argue that the gender fluidity of the unicorn makes it a suitable representation of the LGBT community. Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year.But will they arrive in time to stop the evil king and his wicked wizard henchman from carrying out their deadly plans? In China, if you’re very lucky, you might see the Kilin, a unicorn considered to bring great fortune. They are not at all such as we describe them when we relate that they let themselves be captured by virgins, but clean contrary to our notions. The unicorn is often shown hunted, raising parallels both with vulnerable virgins and sometimes the Passion of Christ.

A rather rare, late-15th-century, variant depiction of the hortus conclusus in religious art combined the Annunciation to Mary with the themes of the Hunt of the Unicorn and Virgin and Unicorn, so popular in secular art. When the magic of Zoe’s soft, sweet singing draws a beautiful unicorn to her, everyone is delighted.However, when King James VI of Scotland also became James I of England, he replaced one of the unicorns with the national animal of England, the lion, as a display of unity between the two countries. False alicorn powder, made from the tusks of narwhals or horns of various animals, was sold in Europe for medicinal purposes as late as 1741. It has a body more like a cow than a horse, and a curved horn that goes forward, then up at the tip.

The story begins when 9-year-old Phoebe Howell, a girl in the fourth grade, skips a rock across a pond and accidentally hits a unicorn in the face. His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. There are many different examples across the country, ranging from the modest to the ornate, in towns and cities such as Edinburgh, Culross, Prestonpans, Dunfermline and Falkland. Alex lives in Denver with their two furry little bastards, where they twirl their mustache, watch movies, and bike. The translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (1611) followed the Greek Septuagint ( monokeros) and the Latin Vulgate ( unicornis) [45] and employed unicorn to translate re'em, providing a recognizable animal that was proverbial for its untamable nature.The series was woven about 1500 in the Low Countries, probably Brussels or Liège, for an unknown patron. When it finds itself pursued and in danger of capture, it throws itself from a precipice, and turns so aptly in falling, that it receives all the shock upon the horn, and so escapes safe and sound". When the moon gets stuck between two hills, the unicorn tries to free it with help from a griffin and an alchemist. However, some rabbis in the Talmud debate the proposition that the Tahash animal (Exodus 25, 26, 35, 36 and 39; Numbers 4; and Ezekiel 16:10) was a domestic, single-horned kosher creature that existed in Moses' time, or that it was similar to the keresh animal described in Marcus Jastrow's Talmudic dictionary as "a kind of antelope, unicorn".