:::Whisper the Winged Unicorn Series Information:::
Books alphabetically listed with link to its location.

::A Wish for Whisper::
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Christmas in Rainbow Forest::
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Cry of the Wolf::
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Curse of the Dragon::
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Flying is Fun::
::Journey to Julie's Heart::
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Rescue from Rainbow Forest::
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Shadow of the Hawk::

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The Secret of Dark Hollow::
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Trap of the Hunter::
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Whisper the Winged Unicorn::
::Whisper's Golden Friend::
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Whisper's Lonely Heart::
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Whisper's Magic Mirror::
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Whisper's Secret Dream
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Whisper's Mysterious Adventure::
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Whisper's Rainbow Treasure:

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Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Author: Katherine Stiles    
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson
Date: 1983 
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Bixby the Rabbit
Dorian the Dragon
Tommy the Turtle
Synopsis:  Whisper overcomes her fear of flying by seeking the wisdom of Dorian the dragon.
Additional Information: The first Whisper book.  Came with 12 collector stickers.  One oddity is that the end page of the book finishes with a sentence instead of a picture.  Plot of the book was overall well thought out, I didn't like the illustrations in this one as well as most of the others.  Cover is Blue or aqua.

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A Wish for Whisper

Author: Brown, Christopher
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1984
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
Goldfish
Synopsis: Whisper wishes do something besides flying, she's bored with it.  She meets other creatures from the Rainbow Forest and talks to them about what they are doing.  Some are happy with their obligations, others are not.  She eventually meets her friend Dorian, who advises her to go to the Wishing Pond.  Here she meets a goldfish who tells her that the Wishing Pond is the place where everyone comes to makes wishes.  The fish advises her that the only one who could make her wishes come true, is herself.  
Additional Information:  Came with 12 collector stickers.  Illustrations are better than Whisper the Winged Unicorn.  Cover is dark pink.

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Whisper's Mysterious Adventure
Author: Jeff Simons
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney

Date: 1984
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Mountains across from the Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
owls
trolls
Moonstone (unicorn)
Sunflower (unicorn)
Greenway (unicorn)
Starfish (unicorn)
Synopsis:  Whisper journeys from the Rainbow Forest to the distant mountains, out of curiosity.  She meets several unicorns, saved two unicorns from evil trolls, and find out that she is a legend to the unicorn of the island.  All of the individual unicorns have powers and she wonders what her power is.  As she journeys back to the Rainbow Forest, she realizes her power is bring light to the forest.  
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Cover is Peach or Apricot.  Story isn't that appealing to me, the illustrations were interesting, no the same pictures of Bixby, Dorian and Phineas that you see.  

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The Secret of Dark Hollow
Author: Christopher Brown 
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1985
Settings: Rainbow Forest
Dark Hollow
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
Bixby the Rabbit 
Phineas the Morg
Synopsis:  Dark Hollow is considered to be the most frightening of all places because a Morg creature is supposed to live there.  Whisper wishes to know what the Morg creature looks like, could he be as terrible as everyone says?  She flies to Dark Hollow and collides with a tree.  There she meets an elven man and he takes her back to her home in a cave.  He later tells her that he is the Morg and they have a good laugh about it.  
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Good storyline and illustrations.  First time Whisper meet Phineas. 

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Rescue from Rainbow Forest
Author:  Christopher Brown
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1985bookcover1.jpg (42427 bytes)
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Mother and Father Duck
8 Ducklings
Tommy the Turtle
Bixby the rabbit
Grandmother Bear
Dorian the Dragon
Synopsis: Spring is in full swing in the Rainbow Forest, and melting snow is causing flooding.  Whisper rescues 8 tiny ducklings from the flooding streams and nurses them until their parents come back to get them.
Additional information:  Came with 12 collector stickers.  Great illustrations, good story.  Cover is Red.

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Flying is Fun (Little Shape Book)
Author: Christopher Brown
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1985
Setting:
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Synopsis:
Additional Comments:  Unlike most of the other books this book was available in Hardback. 

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Shadow of the Hawk
Author:  Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1985
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Bixby and Jonathan the Rabbits
Elinore and Lancelot the Hawks
Various small forest creatures
Synopsis: Bixby and Whisper go to visit Jonathan, whom they find hiding under a rock.  Jonathan tells them that two hawks have moved into the Rainbow Forest.  Whisper goes to talk to the hawk and convince them to leave; they will not.  So Bixby, Jonathan, and the other forest creatures go to steal the hawks eggs when Whisper is talking to the hawks.  The hawks and Whisper arrive in time to see what is happening.  Whisper makes the animals give back the eggs and the hawks promise not to eat any of the forest friends.  

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Journey to Julie's Heart
Author: Christopher Brown and Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Tom Kinarney, with concepts by Amber Milligan
Educational Consultant:  JoAnn Mahle, M. A., Ed
Date: 198
6
Settings: Rainbow Forest, Earth
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
Phineas the Nodkin
Bixby and Jonathan, the rabbits
Grandmother Bear
Julie
Dad (Julie's dad; also referred to as doc)
Ralph (Julie's dog)
Aunt Martha
Tut Tuttle
Sheriff Billings
Kim
Kim's parents
Roscoe (Julie's horse)
Synopsis: In the Rainbow Forest, Whisper plans to go on a grand adventure. After many goodbyes she flies away from the forest and just happens to find Earth.  On Earth, Julie has just lost her mother, and now her father has moved them to a rural area.  Whisper, meanwhile is flying and is hit by an airplane, and plummets to the ground.  This is where Julie and Whisper meet.  Whisper is taken back to Julie's farm and put in the barn.  Her father, a veterinary doctor, helps to nurse Whisper back to health.  A curious mail carrier name Tut Tuttle sees Whisper and starts telling everyone is town he has seen a unicorn on the doc's farm.  Julie and Whisper become close friends, and Julie makes plans to keep Whisper forever.  Julie makes an new friend at her new school, after an embarrassing and awkward start.  She finally introduces Kim, her new friend, to Whisper.  Whisper's wing is nearly healed, but the sneaky Tut Tuttle comes to take a picture of Whisper.  He gets the picture taken, but it is blurred.  Still, Sheriff Billings and several town members come to the farm to investigate.  Just as the Sheriff is coming in the barn, they hide Whisper and she uses her magic to change Roscoe's (Julie's horse) coat from brown to white.  Everyone thinks that Roscoe is what Tuttle took a photograph of and they leave.  After lengthy goodbyes, Whisper begins her journey back to the Rainbow Forest.
Additional Information:  Paperback book, with black and white illustrations.  It is larger than any other Whisper book with 63 pages.  Very few illustrations are in the book, about 5 total.  I thought that this book was very well written, well worth reading.

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Whisper's Secret Dream
Author: Peter Mandel
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson-Heaneywhispersecretdreamcover.jpg (132207 bytes)
Date: 1986
Setting: Rainbow Forest and Sunset Hills
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
Crystal the Unicorn
Bixby and Jonathan, the Rabbits
Phineas the Nodkin
Grandmother Bear
Synopsis: Whisper's Secret Dream is to have a best friend and that is like her (a unicorn). Her dream seemingly comes true when she meets Crystal, another unicorn. Crystal, her new "best friend", mistreats Whisper in many ways. Finally Crystal makes fun of Whispers five friends, and she realizes that Crystal is not her true friend. She realizes that her best friends don't have to be like her (a unicorn) and she goes to be with her real best friends: Grandmother Bear, Phineas, Jonathan, Bixby, and Dorian.

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Whisper's Rainbow Treasure 

Author: Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherwhisperrainbowtreasurecover.jpg (131210 bytes)ine Wilson
Date: 1990
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Bixby the Rabbit
Thorn, the sky wizard
Phineas the Nodkin
Synopsis: Whisper's beautiful day takes a turn for the worse when the evil Thorn steals the Rainbow treasure from the Rainbow Forest. The forest begins to disappear, and Whisper is the only one who can save them. She meets Thorn, the sky wizard, and takes back the Rainbow Treasure. She flies back to the Rainbow Forest and is greeted by her friends which greet her happily.

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Christmas in Rainbow Forest
Author:  Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1986
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Synopsis: 
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  

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Whisper's Golden Friend
Author: Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1986
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Sundance, Whisper's Golden friend
Bixby and Jonathan
Phineas the Nodkin
Synopsis: Whisper meets Sundance and chats for a while.  He has to go back to his home, so as he is leaving he shows off for Whisper and hits a tree in all of his glory.  He breaks his wing and has to stay with Whisper for a while.  They spend some time together and then he goes home.
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Cover is bright Blue.  Good plot and excellent illustrations.  There is another book that mentions Sundance in Whisper's Lonely Heart.

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Whisper's Magic Mirror
Author: Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson-Heaney    
Date: 1986
Setting: Rainbow Forest and magic mountain
Characters:  
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Frog
Bixby and Jonathan the Rabbits
Phineas the Nodkin
Dorian the Dragon
Grandmother Bear
Synopsis: Whisper stumbles upon the magic mountain made of glass and goes exploring.  She finds a beautiful mirror in the mountain and stares and admires how beautiful she is.  A nearby frog warns her that if she looked into the mirror for to long, she would fall in.  She becomes angry at the frog's suggestion of her vanity, but none of her friends want to be around her because she is constantly babbling about herself.  Eventually, she falls into the river by the mountain, and realizes how silly she looks covered in water.  She apologies to her friends for her vanity and they all are happy again.
Additional Information:  Came with 12 collector stickers.  I enjoyed the story and moral in this book, very enticing.  I loved the illustrations that Katherine Wilson did for this book, they all really were beautiful.  Cover is Peach.

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Cry of the Wolf
Author: Peter Mandel
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson Heaney
Date: 1986
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Bixby and Jonathan the Rabbits
Simon the Woodchuck
Jeremy the Skunk
Phineas the Nodkin
Chieftain the head wolf
Other wolves
Synopsis: Whisper is getting ready for the annual Spring Fair.  She meets some of the forest friends, but realizes that they are frightened.  They have heard timber wolves crying and have scared all the woodland animals.  Whisper goes to Phineas, who tells her more about the timber wolves.  Then she goes to pay them a visit, and realizes they aren't that scary at all.  She even invites them to the Spring Fair.  
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Cover is blue green.

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Trap of the Hunter
Author: Jill Wolf
Illustrations: Katherine Wilson
Date: 1988
Setting: Rainbow Forest
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Bixby and Jonathan, the Rabbits
Phineas the Nodkin
Dorian the Dragon    
Flora the Deer
Synopsis:  Whisper is approached by Bixby and Jonathan, who are frantic.  They tell Whisper that the hunter is coming, and to run away.  As she starts to run, she realizes that Flora the deer is hurt and cannot run.  Whisper flies toward the hunter and distracts him from the deer and leads him far enough away from Flora that she would be safe.  The hunter comes back, though, and this time he's after Whisper.  Whisper, Bixby, Jonathan, Flora, and Phineas all hide in Phineas's cave, and the hunter sits to wait on them to come out.  After time passes, Dorian the dragon approaches and scares off the hunter and saves the day.
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Cover:  Peach or apricot.  The illustrations were pretty good on this one, I enjoyed them anyway.  The plot was good too, although not one of my favorites.

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Whisper's Lonely Heart
Author:  Jill Wolf

Illustrations: Cathy Sturm
Date: 1992
Settings: Rainbow Forest
Amber Mountains
Goldenrod Meadow
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Sundance
Starlight
Phineas
Bixby
Dorian
Synopsis: Whisper is lonely and realizes that she misses her friend Sundance.  She decides to journey and pay him a visit, but sees him with a "girl" unicorn and is upset that he has another special friend.  She runs away into the woods but gets her horn stuck in a tree.  Her friend, Sundance, and the girl pony heard her rushing into the woods and came to check on her.  They help her get free from the tree, and Whisper realizes that Sundance's special friend was his sister.  She feels better, and now has two new friends instead of one.
Additional Information: Came with 12 collector stickers.  Cover is light Pink.  Storyline was good, but I didn't like the illustrations on this one as much as some of the others.

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Curse of the Dragon
Author: Christopher Brown        
Illustrations: Tom Kinarney
Reading Level Consultant:  JoAnn Mahle
Date: 1985
Settings: Rainbow Forest
Squishmire Marsh
Dark Hollow
Wizard's Roost (Mountain of Fire, Falco's Grotto)
Characters:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn
Dorian the Dragon
Bixby the Rabbit
Phineas the Morg (same as Phineas the Nodkin) *Notation:  Phineas for some reason is called the Morg instead of the Nodkin in this book; Morg means historian).  He was also referred to as Phineas Morganus.
Falco
Synopsis:  Whisper's friend Dorian has taken ill when he accidentally ate some dragon bane.  Dragon bane, a mystical and mysterious herb, was used to manipulate dragons into doing the will of wizards.  Dorian must be saved before the dragon's bane causes him to turn against everyone in the Rainbow Forest.  Whisper's flies to the faraway lands of the Wizard's Roost to see out the secret of dragon's bane.  She flies toward the Mountain of Fire and collapses.  When she awakens she is confronted by Falco.  Falco is a beautiful black unicorn who tells her that the Wizard's Roost no longer exists.  He tells Whisper that he knows the secret of the dragon bane, once he earns her trust he enslaves her.
   
Falco turns from the beautiful unicorn into an evil wizard.  He tells her he is going to take her horn and use it to control Dorian.  Whisper escapes from the clutches of Falco and flies back to Dorian.  She tells Phineas what the secret of dragon bane was, and he takes a sliver from her horn and makes the antidote.  Dorian is now out of control and begins to attack, but Phineas throws the vial of the antidote at him and it bursts.  Dorian is cured.  Everyone lives happily ever after.
Additional Information: Paperback book, no stickers, Purple cover.  This is an intermediate readers book  It is very well written and well illustrated.  It has 8 colored illustrations.  


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