{"id":2213,"date":"2025-10-11T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:38:40","slug":"the-last-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"The Last Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have very little to say about this book because it speaks for itself so beautifully. It is my absolute favorite book and has been since I stumbled on it in a used bookstore as a young teen. (The snippets of the movie I had somehow seen pieces of terrified and confused me as a young child, but I got over that with time. Beagle himself wrote the screenplay, and the studio who made it later later split and became Studio Ghibli, all of which is very cool.) I loved reading it to the boys and they each have a signed first edition that the absolutely lovely Peter Beagle inscribed to them (for more on that encounter, see my entry on The Sneetches and Other Stories<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not alone in loving this book; over and over again I’ve seen authors pay tribute to it. For example, Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher), another especial favorite of mine (and of the boys), notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She’s right. I mean, my goodness, just look at the first page below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Peter S. Beagle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustrator: N\/A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have very little to say about this book because it speaks for itself so beautifully. It is my absolute favorite book and has been since I stumbled on it in a used bookstore as a young teen. (The snippets … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[119,222,150,155,767,89,766,732,90,87,691],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-books","tag-animals","tag-fairy-tale","tag-fractured-fairy-tale","tag-i-read-this-as-a-kid","tag-movie","tag-peter-s-beagle","tag-studio-ghibli","tag-t-kingfisher","tag-the-last-unicorn","tag-the-sneetches-and-other-stories","tag-ursula-vernon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}