"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...

As Christmas approaches, Lucy is excited about the tree, cookies, stockings, and especially presents but, despite her urging and example, Sparkle is not interested in buying gifts for Lucy.

The fifth book in A Unicorn Named Sparkle series features valentines, parties, love, glitter, and of course, one sparkly friendship between a girl and her unicorn