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Spellhorn ISBN: 9780006735007
Doherty, Berlie
Published by Lions, 1990
Spellhorn is a unicorn - part of the band of Wild Ones - but he has left them for the World of Man, to look for a new leader, a new 'Mighty High' for the tribe. He finds her in Laura, who is blind, and the Wild Ones come to take Laura and Spellhorn back to their home - the Wilderness. Laura can see when she reaches the Wilderness, and the land is richly beautiful. For a time she misses home, and in scenes from the parallel world we see Laura's parents and her friend, Sam, looking for her and mourning her loss. Sam, too, has seen the unicorn, but no one believes him. There are battles and adventures and a final understanding on Laura's part that she must return to her blind real world. She leaves behind as Mighty High the girl, Midnight, who is really herself - the child she could see dimly in the mirror before she went completely blind. This fantasy was written with the help of four blind children from Tapton Mount School for the Visually Impaired in Sheffield, and it makes real a world they must have loved inventing. Beautiful in word, pictures and in understanding.
Age: 9+