Just in time for the holidays comes a pretty pink stocking stuffer that’s as sweet as the cookies left out for Santa.
Pinkalicious, the imperfect heroine of Victoria Kann’s uber-popular I Can Read! book series, is back, and she’s got a new talent to show off—-ice skating.
In Pinkalicious: Pink Around the Rink, Kann proves that you can’t keep a perky, pig-tailed princess in training down. When Pink is presented with a new pair of ice skates she’s both tickled pink and perplexed at the same time. Why would her mother gift her with white ice skates when she knows about Pink’s passion for all things, you know… pink!
Rather than pout about her predicament, Pink problem solves on her own by coating her skates with a few layers of pink ink. After several swipes of her cotton candy marker, all is right in Pink’s world, until she arrives at the ice rink.
The look on Pink’s mom’s face is priceless upon seeing what her precious daughter did to her brand new skates. (So nice to see that not all of Kann’s characters view the world through rose-colored glasses.) Pink’s perturbed mom manages to keeps it together at the outdoor public rink, which is more than can be said for Pinkalicious. Not only does Pink fail to remain upright on her pinkified skates, but apparently, the pint-sized Picasso didn’t use a Sharpie because the pink ink from her skates starts to bleed on the ice and leaves marks that petrify Pink.
Still, we are in Pink’s cotton candy world, so your precocious young reader will not be pummeled with an ending that is anything less than peachy.
Kann uses all 32 pages of her brightly colored book to weave yet another practically perfect tale about Pinkalicious without painting her out to be a petulant picaroon.
Pinkalicous: Pink Around the Rink is the perfect paperback to gift as a stocking stuffer, Saint Nick present or as one of your child’s eight Hanukkah gifts. You can preview and purchase the book at HarperCollins.com.
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