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Picture Books: Fairies, Unicorns, and Mythical Beings

Picture books featuring enchanted worlds filled with magical winged beings and mystical horned horses that spark the imagination of younger readers.

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  • A disagreement between Coral, Filly, and Manta, three young mermaids who work together to build and safeguard the reef that is their home, must quickly be set right.
    Book, 2020New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — E IDL
  • When Ruby finds a lovely shell with a strand of mermaid's hair, she sends it to her best friend.
    Book, 2004Brooklyn, N.Y. : Ragged Bears, 2004. — E TRO
  • A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale about a girl who is only one inch tall.
    Book, 2013Toronto, Ont. ; Berkeley, CA : Groundwood Books, 2013. — E 398.2 KRI
  • Uni the unicorn must help the Easter Bunny when the eggs for the egg hunt go missing!
    Book, 2024New York : Random House Children's Books, 2024. — E WEB
  • Monty the Malodorous is a daring pirate. He is brave. He is bold. He is feared by all who sail the six or seven seas. But Monty has a secret: he can't swim. He never goes into the ocean -- and he never takes a bath. 'Real pirates don't bathe.…
    Book, 2017Toronto, Ontario : Kids Can Press, 2017. — E MOO
  • Kitty, who looks like a kitten yet feels she is actually a unicorn, begins to doubt herself as others ridicule her, until she meets a unicorn that helps her discover and embrace who she is.
    Book, 2021New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021 — E HAL
  • Fairy Godmother teaches young fairies--and Ivy the dog--to become fairy godmothers, but something is missing.
    Easy Reader, 2017New York : Random House, [2017] — E BOE
  • Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
    Book, 2017New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017. — E SIM
  • Fairies have fluttered through popular fairy tales for many years. Have you ever wondered what fairies look like, where they live, or what kinds of tricks they play? Fly through this book to find out the truth about fairies.
    Book, 2010Mankato, MN : Picture Window Books, c2010. — E 398.21 JOH
  • Everyone knows unicorns are perfect. They are glamorous, glittery, sparkly creatures that bring happiness to everyone around them. But Kevin's day is just not going as expected. He wakes up not only on the wrong side of the bed - but on the floor.…
    Book, 2019Toronto : North Winds Press, 2019. — E VON
  • Contained within this picture book is everything you ever wanted to know about the science behind unicorns: biology, history, diet, habitat and more. Join renowned unicorn scientists to learn the facts about this elusive species.
    Book, 2019[Toronto, Ontario] : Tundra, 2019. — E ATK
  • A child wishes for a unicorn without knowing how unruly they are as pets.
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — E DYC
  • Do you know how unicorns got their horns? It all began once upon a magic forest, when a little girl called June discovered tiny horses learning how to fly in her garden. But one of the poor horses couldn't fly at all! So, with the help of her…
    Book, 2020Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. — E BLU
  • The teeny-weeny unicorn feels like the world is not made for his small stature and one day it bothers him so much he runs off, but soon after meeting a salty gnome he starts to wonder if he might just be the right size after all.
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024] — E HAR
  • When the glass kingdom begins cracking, the king and queen fail in their quest to get help from the fairy Bloom, who can work great magic but was banished because of her muddy boots and messiness, so they send Genevieve, an ordinary girl who will do…
    Book, 2016New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. — E CRO
  • With a love of her family's garden and the fairies that live there, Miranda decides to have a birthday party in the evening when the fairies awaken, despite her family's skepticism about their existence. Is there really magic in Miranda's garden? It…
    Book, 2002Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2002. — E HUN
  • On their first assignment, two young tooth fairy sisters journey by night into the huge world of humans to collect Daniel Dangerfield's tooth and fly it safely home.
    Book, 2010Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010. — E GRA