please help: Looking for a children's story with unicorns?

Unicorn Races by Stephen Brooks

" Races is a beautifully created fusion of word and picture. It tells, with no more complexity than it needs, the tale of a young girl named Abigail, who, when her mother bids her goodnight and closes the bedroom door, takes on her night-time role as a princess of the faerie realms. Her unicorn escort transports her to the enchanted woods where she presides over a race between six unicorns. The book is less a story than it is a glimpse into another world: one of colour and magic and beauty. It's an escape into a realm which is not only attractive but safe - Princess Abigail's night-time realm is a place free from the harsh and cynical realities of this world. There's no conflict or competition there, even though the book describes a race: it really doesn't matter who wins: it's the race and the enjoyment of it that's important: the excitement and the fun of it. "

have you found the book that contains this short story? (Race where the curved horn unicorn wins due to helping those in need rather than coming in first place.) I am looking for it too!

I would also like to know the name of it. I think that in the book I had there was also a story of a person that dressed up like a child to get food and was fed rocks. Does that sound familiar. I can see the picture from the book in my head, AAAHHHHH, someone has to know.

I read this story (and acted it out with finger puppets) when I was in grade school too. Searching around, I seem to have uncovered what it was: the title was "The King's New Pet" and it was in a reader called Cloverleaf. I hope this helps others.

Did you ever discover this short tale? I remember it too - it became in a e book containing a determination of comments. I remember that the king advised the unicorn with the curved horn that it gained the race because of the fact he stopped to assist those in %.