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The Unicorn with Silver Shoes

Record Added: 8/11/2011
A Favorite Book
Author Ella Young
Illustrator Robert Lawson
Setting Ireland
Topic Fairytales, Myths, Folklo
 Antique or Collectible
Publisher Longmans, Green, Co.
Year 1960
Age 9-12   Pages 215
Description Turqouise cloth cover
 
The Unicorn with Silver Shoes is an extremely imaginative and well-written fairy tale about Ballor's son and his amusing companions, Flame of Joy, Angus the Ever Young. And the Pooka who can change shapes into anything he wants. In their search for Elbis, the Djinn, who fell into the Civilized World, while clutching for the moon which he thinks is a flower, the group partake in many fanciful and thrilling adventures and escapes including climbing slanting sunbeams; running like the wind just above the Earth; sliding down the polished surfaces of crystal and amethyst mountains; and winging their way on the back of the Sacred Cat of Cruachan over the Mountains of the Silver Unicorns. Finally they are assisted by the One-Headed Ogre of Whirling Castle in the Borderland who helps them in the search for Eblis in the Civilized World.

Chapter Contents Include:

  • Three Golden Apples 
  • The Unicorn with Silver Shoes 
  • Kyelins, Blue & Green 
  • Flower of the Moon

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