Pinkalicious (series) by Victoria Kann

Pinkalicious (series) by Victoria Kann

Overall rating: 2 stars

My husband was giving me a hard time the other day about the fact that I don't have many books that are rated 2 or 3 stars.  I explained to him that it pains me to use my few writing minutes to write about a bad book when there are so many good books out there...  But since Lorelei insisted we check almost every single one of these books out from the library, I feel compelled to blog about these silly books.

In short, they are the equivalent of cheap plastic toys that get played with a few times and then left in the playroom to take up space and gather dust. 

The only one with any redeeming qualities is the original Pinkalicious, because it has the saying: "You get what you get, and you don't get upset."  Of course, the little girl does get upset, so it's not much of a learning moment for her.  But the gist of the story is that Pinkalicious (what is her real name?!) eats too many pink cupcakes even after her parents tell her to stop, and she turns pink.  She even eats more after that; only when she turns red does she heed her doctor's advice and eat everything green in her family's refrigerator. 

In Pink Around the Rink Pinkalicious' mom surprises her with a brand new pair of ice skates, which Pinkalicious promptly colors--with a marker!--pink.  Her parents are only mildly annoyed (and her father has a hint of a smile/smirk).  Though she thinks she'll be graceful, she's not, and her pink skates leave tracks of her non-graceful-ness.  And the pink rubs off.  Her mom comforts her: "Now they're unique, like you."  What?!  That's how you take care of personal property?!  Not in our house.

Goldalicious is pretty hard to read.  Ok, so Pinkalicious has an active imagination and imagines that she has a unicorn named Goldicious--thankfully a less atrocious "Goldie" for short--who follows her around.  She even lets her little brother "play" with Goldie.  I don't know what else to say but this book might never get checked out again unless it's while Grammy is visiting and I'm not around to read it.

In another paperback book, Tickled Pink, Pinkalicous is sharing a joke book with all her friends.  While everyone is laughing around her, the class bully (dressed in black, of course) challenges her to come up with a joke of her own.  She thinks of one in the middle of the night and, though she thinks she'll flop, she comes out on top by tickling everyone pink.  I guess this one isn't horrible, but it isn't that great, either.

I don't even want to waste your time by describing the rest of them.  Lazy?  Maybe, but...you get the idea.  While I'm glad Lorelei is interested in books, and almost any book is better than no book at all, I would probably return these if someone gave her them as a gift.  There are too many other wonderful ones, and these are just plain silly.