Pinkalicious

Title: Pinkalicious 

Authors: Victoria Kann & Elizabeth Kann

Illustrator: Victoria Kann

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Grade: Pre-kindergarten-second

Hardcover: 40 Pages

Publisher: HarperCollins (May 23,2006)

Language: English and Spanish

ISBN-10: 97800060776398

Pinkalicious is a book about desserts, desire, and disipline.

Pinkalicious loves the color pink. She wears only pink, plays with only pink toys, and loves eating pink cupcakes. Once she starts eating those pink cupcakes she can not stop. Her mother and her father keep telling her that she will be sick if she eats too many but she does not care. Before she knows it Pinkalicious turns PINK! She goes to the doctor and he tells her that she has a sickness called Pinkititis. A dream come true, Pinkalicious is pink! To bring her back to her skin color the doctor tells her she can not longer eat anything pink, but of course Pinkalicious eats just one more cupcakes and she turns RED. How must she get out of this mess? What can she do to make it better? Find out by reading Pinkalicious. 

I love the story of Pinkalicious its a wonderful story that will teach children that eating to much of a good thing isn't so good. The main character in the story I believe a lot of little children can connect with shes fun, beautiful, and she loves to push her parents buttons, which I believe a lot of children do. She eats to much pink food and before you know it she is pink, how is she going to over come this problem does she figure out how to change back to her normal skin color? Its a story that a character gets into a problem and she does figure out how to get out out of it. The story is not one that could really happen in the sense that your skin will change color if you get to much of one food, but you can become sick if you eat to much of a food so the story line can be based on a true idea but not necessarily a whole truth.

The book as a few literacy elements one being simile in the book Pinkalicious "My hair was like the color of raspberry sorbet". Another element is hyperbole when Pinkalicious' brother tells her that he wishes he was pink like her "He was green with envy". The last element is alliteration "Next thing i knew, my arms tickle, my ears tingles, and my feet twitched."

The illustrations in the story are wonderful, they pull you into the story even more then the text does. When Pinkalicious turns pink you can see how happy she is and then when she turns read you can see how sad she is. The text and the picture go hand and hand. With out one of the the story would not be the way it was meant to be. Victoria Kann did a wonderful job connecting the text to the pictures. 

A mini-lesson I would do with this book is talk about about healthy eating, I would use the picture in the story to go through a picture walk and list off what are healthy and unhealthy food in the story that Pinkalicious eats. I would want the children to become aware with what are unhealthy and healthy foods, and how you can eat foods that are unhealthy but in small portions. I would also want to talk about how Pinkalicious turns pink and how that would never happen in real life instead we can just become very sick from eating to much of something. I loved this book and will be using it in my future classroom.