Pinkalicious

This book is about a little girl named Pinkalicious Pinkerton who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns pink. Thankfully, the doctor knows the cure: eat more green healthy food! The book is best for beginning readers to read on their own.

This is one of those books that's supposed to have a moral, but the moral is totally lost in the celebration of all things pink. And I really dislike the way it villainizes all green foods, even grapes! I make a point of naming all the foods on the green food page that my little one loves to eat. Not a fan, but she loves it, because...it's so pink! ( )

Pinkalicious loves all things pink from fairy dresses to cotton candy to bubblegum. Her parents warn her not to eat too many pink cupcakes, but she keeps eating them. She eats so many she turns herself pink! The story follows Pinkalicious as she tries to figure out how to no longer be pink. In the classroom I would use this book to show students how puns and fake rhyming words can be used to add to the story. ( )

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