Babyliography CXLIV

Jennifer Fox, My Little Pony: Passport to Reading – We Are Unicorns

2018 / Audiobook / 32 pages / USA

**

We're all special, provided you have a magical horn too.

Unknown, The Very Friendly Unicorn

2019 / Audiobook/ebook

*

Charm-free DIY.

Tim Hutchinson, Life in a Castle: A 3-dimensional Carousel

2008 / Museum book / 8 pages / UK

****

More accordion than book, it took until the second "read" for me to realise it folded all the way around.

D. Jakobs, My Little Pony: Passport to Reading – Holly Jolly Harmony

2013 / Audiobook / 32 pages / USA

**

It actually works better as spin-off lore than the dull episode.

Sam Taplin, Usborne Touchy-Feely Sound Books: Don't Tickle the Unicorn!

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

*

The fluffy sounds were kaput, so we didn't get to confuse our senses.

Babyliography CXLIII

Rosie Greening and Stuart Lynch, Never Touch a Panda

2020 / Library book / 12 pages / UK

*

Athletic zoo version.

Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, What the Ladybird Heard Next

2015 / Library books / 32 pages / UK

**

Definitively closes off the setting to open the series to new formulaic horizons.

Lesley Sims and Sara Gianassi, Usborne Listen and Read: Sleeping Beauty

2023 / Library book / 12 pages / UK/Italy

**

Literal talking book.

Adam Wallace and Alice Pescarin, If Your Best Friend Is a Unicorn

2022 / Audiobook / 40 pages / Australia/Italy

*

Laziest unicorn art ever.

Namrata Tripathi and Carlo Loraso, My Little Pony: Eight Little Ponies

2004 / Audiobook/ebook / 18 pages / USA

**

Really contrived rhymes.

Babyliography CXLII

Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson, Twenty Questions

2023 / Library book / 40 pages / USA

***

Variably inspiring scenarios, may be useful for early detection of the criminally insane.

Victoria Munson, My First Book of Nature: Mammals

2017 / Library book / 24 pages / UK

***

She liked the weasels particularly.

Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside

2020 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

**

Introducing mermaids undermines the realism of the talking-animal crime drama.

Carly Madden and Neil Clark, Explore Under the Sea

2022 / Library book / 18 pages / UK

***

Descend through the murky underwater rainbow. I think you're supposed to retrace their steps back to the start, unless you prefer to consign them to the cold, dark depths.

Morag Hood and Ella Okstad, Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert

2018 / Library book / 32 pages / UK/Norway

**

She picked up on the unspoken supernatural aspect. But then, she was probably staring at that unicorn the whole time.

Babyliography CXLI

Unknown, Noddy and His New Friend

1994 / Ebook/Audiobook / 32 pages / UK

**

She wanted context for the lullaby theme tune and sat through this real-time episode adaptation. They used to credit preschoolers with longer attention spans.

Richard Byrne, This Book Is Out of Control

2016 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

**

Needing to be able to read the buttons is an unfortunate age/development barrier for a picture book. We should stick to felt flaps until Reception, I guess.

Jake McDonald, Priddy Learning: My First Colours

2022 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

**

If you really didn't teach your child about colours before the age of three, they're going to be blown away. Otherwise, a spinner and dull flaps may not offer much excitement.

Kathryn Dennis, Snakes in Space

2021 / Library book / 32 pages / USA

*

If Alan Partridge was pitching picture book ideas.

Kathy Wolff and Richard Byrne, What George Forgot

2017 / Library book / 40 pages / USA/UK

****

She spotted it, after coincidentally forgetting her own shoes in the library.