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Hale, Shannon

Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn

48 pp. | Abrams | March, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-5091-5 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-64700-128-5 $15.54
(2) PS Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Kitty, a fluffy pink feline sporting a stripy conical hat, "thinks she might be a unicorn." Admiring herself in the mirror ("she feels so perfectly unicorn-y"), she doesn't let Parakeet's heckling ("You're never going to be a unicorn, funny-foo") or Gecko's ("You meow in your sleep, miffy-mew") get her down--until the arrival of an actual unicorn ("Clop clop clop...Neigh!") causes a minor existential crisis. The species-admiration is mutual, though, with Unicorn confessing that he's really a "Kitty-corn"--and maybe Kitty is, too. Pham's lively pink-and-purple-heavy illustrations, a mix of full pages, double-page spreads, and vignettes, include plenty of white space with little background detail. The creatures take center stage, and when our heroes briefly pause, standing eye-to-eye ("'Yes,' says Kitty. 'I see you'"), there's poignancy. Pham and Hale are themselves a comfortably established pair, with eight Princess in Black books (co-written with Dean Hale) and the Friends graphic memoirs (Real Friends, rev. 5/17; Best Friends, rev. 11/19). Their picture-book debut about embracing one's inner unicorn is a paean to self-perception, self-actualization, and finding one's people amongst the neigh-sayers.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2021

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