When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her
twenty-five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own
unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his
beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him:
Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is
too short, he smells funny--and oh, he has fleas. Lucy isn't pleased,
but in the end she warms up to Sparkle and realizes that even though he
wasn't exactly the unicorn she wanted, he might be just the one she
needs.