I enjoyed this book. The illustrations were so vibrant and colorful. I picked this book because my niece loves unicorns, but the book is not based on the unicorn. It is based on a little girl who is trying to figure out what it means to be happily ever after. After her dad read her a bedtime story, she started thinking about what makes one happily ever after. She goes to sleep and starts dreaming about her unicorn and the unicorn takes her to the magical world to ask all the people and animals what it means to them to be happily ever after. She gets many answers, but not the one she wants. She then figures that everyone’s happily ever after is different for every person. She then starts thinking about what her happily ever after is and she can't figure it out. Her dad asks if she has found out what happily ever after is and she says she has many ideas, but she hasn't found the answer. So, he asks her what will make her happy for breakfast and she says pancakes. The book then ends with her eating pancakes, but the answer is still at large. She does know that happily ever after is different for every person, so maybe she will never find an exact answer. I thought the message behind the book was great also because it is true, what makes one person happy might not make another person. Everyone is different! ( )

Summary: Claire and her Unicorn Capricorn go on a journey in her dreams to find out what people look for in their "Happily Ever After". After asking many credible sources like a Fairy Godmother and a wishing well they still do not have an answer. In the end Claire decides that what makes a person live happily ever after is different for each person. ( )

This book is about a girl named Claire who asks her dad, after he finishes reading her a fairy tale, what makes someone happy ever after. He responds that it is a good question and that she should think about it and let him know in the morning what she thinks. Claire then goes on an amazing adventure with her toy unicorn in her dreams where she visits many fairy tale characters and asks them what they think and they all have different answers. The next morning Claire tells her dad that it depends on what makes you happy.
This is a good example of a fantasy book because there is a talking unicorn in it. It is also believable, holds together, and asks life questions about happiness. The message of this book and the plot were both very good but the style of writing the author used was not very good in my opinion. It felt a little choppy. I think there were too many he said, she said that were back to back.
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This is the story of a young girl named claire who takes an adventure in her dream. She goes on her adventure with her unicorn in search of what makes fairy tales so happily ever after. She visits all the different fairy tale characters and asks them all the same question, "What makes you happy?" She then wakes up from her dream and asks her father the same question. He tells her that different things make different people happy and that is what makes each person unique. ( )

Clair and the Unicorn Happy Ever After is a story about a little girl who contemplates what makes people happy forever after her father reads her a bedtime story. Claire, the little girl, searches for her answer in the realms of her dreams with her now live unicorn, Capricorn, only to discover that there is no one answer to people's happiness. Claire and the Unicorn Happy Ever After is beautifully written, with literary allusions that most children would understand, and artwork that follows its audience throughout the book. ( )