How to Be Friends with This Unicorn

Erin Savory and illustrator Ana Zurita tell a short, warm story about a friendly dragon learning to navigate friendship when Luma the unicorn is not feeling well. The empathy and patience themes are genuinely good social-emotional learning territory for the PreK through early-grade audience, and the format — 24 pages, accessible vocabulary, vocabulary list, and teaching tips — makes it practical for classroom use. Parents and families with traditional or faith-based views on gender should know that the unicorn character uses nonbinary they/them pronouns throughout, which is a deliberate and central part of the book's inclusive design. That content choice will make it the right fit for some classrooms and families and the wrong fit for others. The friendship message is sweet; the pronoun framing is a real consideration for many on this site's audience.