The Pug Who Wanted to Be a Unicorn
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Publisher Description
Meet the adorable and silly Peggy the pug in this first story in a middle grade series about a dog who wants to be many things, but more than anything wants to find her forever home!
After Peggy the pug puppy is left at the animal shelter just before Christmas, she is taken in by a foster family. But the situation is just temporary—the family isn’t ready for a dog quite yet. And the little girl, Chloe, wants a unicorn for Christmas, not a puppy.
Peggy decides that she will become a unicorn to make Chloe’s Christmas wish come true—and hopefully make Peggy’s temporary home her forever home in the process. All she needs is a long silky mane, a glowing horn, and the ability to do magic! Easy-peasy, right? But all of Peggy’s attempts to become a unicorn go hilariously wrong. From knocking over the Christmas tree to getting lost in the snow, Peggy remains a pug. How will she ever find a forever home if she can’t make her new humans happy?
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Seeking her forever home, a puppy desperately tries to become the pet she believes her adoptive family wants: a unicorn. Peggy, an inquisitive young pug with floppy black ears, wants an owner's love most of all. But love comes with strings attached with her negligent first owner, before Peggy is fostered by a cued-white family of five over Christmas. As the family reels from the recent loss of their previous dog, Peggy wonders if they'll ever love another as much. Hatching a plan to become a unicorn ("I can be anything I want to be... so I'll be a unicorn!"), Peggy makes her best attempts, with messy results. Nevertheless, the family continues to show Peggy patience and kindness. Black-and-white sketched illustrations are interspersed throughout as Swift pens a warmly familial story through the eyes of a pup who thinks love is earnable—when really the family "wanted her all along." Ages 7–10.
