Isabel Losada

Forget unicorns – show children the magic of real, living animals

Has it ever struck you as interesting the amount of dinosaur products that are marketed to boys and unicorn products to girls? I recently visited the wonderful Horniman Museum in London, only to discover that it had been taken over by something called Dinosaur rEvolution. Hertfordshire zoo offers a World of Dinosaurs, there is the “ roarsome” theatre show Dinosaur World: Live, a dinosaur-themed park in Norfolk called ROARR!, Dinosaur World in Torquay, Dinosaur Park near Swansea, Dino Park in Dumfries – the list is as long as the neck of a brontosaurus. Parents will have noticed that unicorns are equally ubiquitous, and marketed exclusively and equally extensively to little girls, usually swathed in pink. There is no evidence that unicorns ever existed – at least not those creatures of…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 21 March 2025

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