There is no unicorn in this book
There is no unicorn in this book
There is no unicorn in this book
There is no unicorn in this book
There is no unicorn in this book
There is no unicorn in this book
Best for ages 1–4 — boys and girls

There is no unicorn in this book

By Professor DeanDean

There may be no unicorn in this book, but there is one very fashionable frog, two tea-drinking mice, three scarf-sharing ducks and plenty more peculiar animals waiting to be counted.

Follow the numbers from 1 to 12 in a funny first counting book filled with colourful characters, playful details and one suspiciously absent unicorn.

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33 pages · 7.5x7.5 inch · ISBN 9781915917270

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For Parents — A Playful First Step into Numbers and Counting

There Is No Unicorn in This Book introduces numbers 1–12 through repetition, visual counting and increasingly funny groups of animals. Rather than presenting numbers as isolated symbols, each number belongs to a little scene children can look at, count and talk about with a grown-up.

For younger children, the pictures offer simple opportunities to point, name and count together. As they grow, children can begin recognising quantities, remembering the sequence and predicting what comes next. The humour keeps repeated reading enjoyable — which matters when your toddler asks for the same counting book for the seventeenth time.

Clear visual counting
Funny animal characters
Made for shared reading
Plenty to spot and discuss

“My three-year-old loves searching every page to see if the unicorn is secretly hiding somewhere. By the fourth read she was already shouting out the numbers before I could. Funny, bright and actually enjoyable to read again and again.”

— Rachel M., mum of a 3-year-old girl

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“She thinks she’s looking for the unicorn. I know she’s learning to count.”

Rachel M., mum of a 3-year-old girl

Count All the Way from 1 to 12

Each spread introduces the next number with a new group of colourful animals, helping little readers see how quantities grow from one all the way to twelve.
The repeating structure makes it easy for children to join in, anticipate the next number and eventually count along themselves.

Learning Disguised as Something Very Silly

This is not twelve pages of objects waiting to be counted. The animals are far too busy wearing high heels, opening hat shops, ice-skating and cutting each other’s hair.
The strange little situations give children something memorable to attach each number to — and give grown-ups plenty to talk about beyond the counting.

Made for Little Readers to Join In

Simple language, repeated patterns and clear groups of animals make the book easy to follow during shared reading.
Children can point, count, name the animals and gradually begin predicting which number comes next.

And Absolutely No Unicorns

The title promises there is no unicorn in this book, and for once a book can be trusted.
The missing unicorn adds a small running joke for older toddlers, giving them another reason to inspect the pictures closely — just in case.

What other parents think:

“Our new counting favourite. My little boy has recently become obsessed with numbers and this landed at exactly the right time. He loves the frog’s red shoes and insists the skating sheep are going to fall over.”

— Omar K., dad of a 2-year-old boy

“Simple enough for one, still funny at four. I bought this for my youngest, but my four-year-old keeps joining in. The counting is clear and repetitive without feeling like a numbers lesson.”

— Sophie L., mum of girls aged 1 and 4

“Where IS the unicorn? My son was absolutely convinced I had missed a page. We had to go back through the whole book and check. Clever way to make him look at every picture twice.”

— Daniel A., dad of a 3-year-old boy

“The bears cutting each other’s hair won. Colourful, weird and properly silly. My daughter points at every animal while we count together. Nine hairdressing bears are apparently the funniest thing she has ever seen.”

— Meena P., mum of a 2-year-old girl

“A lovely first numbers book. The illustrations give us much more to talk about than just counting. We count the animals, find things in the pictures and make up stories about what they are doing.”

— Chris W., dad of a 3-year-old girl

“Short, silly and very repeatable. My two-year-old rarely sits through a whole book, but the changing animals keep her interested. She now shouts ‘TWELVE BUNNIES!’ before we even reach the page.”

— Nadia H., mum of a 2-year-old girl

“Apparently the unicorn being busy is hilarious. My four-year-old understands the joke now and laughs before I even reach the last line. My one-year-old mostly points at the animals. Works nicely for both.”

— Tom B., dad of children aged 1 and 4

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