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My boys (7 and 9 years old) spent the last few weeks preparing for a great Lego battle. They both built clever castles and prepared armies of men and scorpions and Star Wars creatures and bugs. Yesterday, the day before the battle, they asked to go to the Lego store for a few reinforcements. [...] Click here for a wordsearch puzzle featuring fantasy animals including the unicorn. As you find the fantasy animals, click on the puzzle to highlight them. This is the first of many puzzles that will be added to this site. In my search for unicorns and other family-friendly fantasy stuff on the Web, I came across a site called www.girlgames.com. The site says it is focused on girl gamers. The games seem to consist mostly of online dress-up and innocent romantic fantasies. The girl stereotypes are a bit over the top, but some girls [...] For Christmas, my son received a young readers version of the classic Dr. Dolittle (see specific version below). In the book, Polynesia the parrot introduces the doctor to speaking animal languages. She states that she is fluent in over 2000 animal languages – including unicorn. Pretty impressive for a parrot! We enjoyed the [...] Unicorns are found in many aspects of ancient and modern culture. Check out the winter night sky for a glimpse of the Monoceros the Unicorn constellation. More information here at the Recorder Online: Recorder Online A farmer in China reports having a unicorn cow. Click this link for a photo: For a high-brow view of unicorns, here are some quotes from classical literature. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown; The lion beat the unicorn All around about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown; Some gave them plum cake, And sent them out of town. [...] Discovery Channel News has an interesting, kid-friendly video on its site about a unicorn deer. It shows a deer that has only grown one horn in the middle of his head. The deer lives on a refuge in Italy and his name, appropriately, is Unicorno. Check out the video: http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/mythical-unicorn-found-in-deer/py32t8y There seems to be a unicorns versuses the world vibe going on. First it was unicorns, geeks and lawyers. Now it is zombies. I just found a new blog that happens to be featuring unicorns right now. Specifically, the blog, Good Books & Good Wine, is doing a throw-down content between zombies and unicorns. [...] |
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