What a great interview!

_Elsa_

“Let’s continue with our interview now,” says the TV host.

‘When you were writing this, was your life consumed by unicorns? Were you constantly pulling out unicorn facts with friends?

Yeah. A lot of my free time was spent thinking about unicorns, and people started giving me little unicorn objects. My mom got me this great unicorn key chain that is a unicorn with a button that when you push it, it lights up and makes some sort of sparkly magic noise. And I was really excited about narwhals. I wanted to talk to everyone about narwhals for a while, because they’re so cool. It was fun to do the book because I went on a little field trip to the Cloisters to see the unicorn tapestries and the narwhal horn they have there. So it was a little bit all-consuming for a while.

I just saw a narwhal horn for the first time recently, and it was so enormous and cool.

Right! They’re so big! There’s at least one example of a historical description of a unicorn that says the unicorn had a horn that was ten feet long. And you have to think that that person had seen a narwhal horn, because that’s how big they are. The one at the Cloisters is way taller than me. And to think that some creature is just swimming around the ocean with that attached to its face? It just makes the world seem like that much more of an incredible place. And that’s what’s cool about this book is that unicorns are magical and fun to think about, but there are actually amazing creatures and amazing things out in the world, like narwhals swimming around with ten-foot horns.

It is really wild that a unicorn isn’t real but a narwhal is. A horse with a horn makes way more sense than a whale with a horn.

That’s exactly it. In some ways it’s easier to imagine this mythical creature than to imagine a lot of creatures that actually existed. It goes back to these historical accounts from Greek and Roman travelers. They would come back with these stories of all of these outlandish creatures, and some of them were real; some of them were elephants and rhinoceroses. So why wouldn’t unicorns be real? (Info here) 

“Sarah, thank you for coming and sharing with us,” says the TV host. “If you want to learn some facts about unicorns you can google 10 Magical Facts About Unicorns. 

The show comes to an end and Tiffi turns off the TV. It’s now time for both of them to go to bed. Tomorrow is another day!

Let’s continue here - The three of them do some sparring 

Start at the beginning - Misty falls in love