PINKALICIOUS AND THE PINKAMAZING LITTLE LIBRARY
Seeing Pinkalicious with her nose in a book, schoolmate Jade is incredulous: “Are you reading AGAIN?” Pinkalicious admits that reading was hard to learn, “but now it’s pinkamazingly fun!” On the bus, in bed, eating, or walking, she reads. At home there is nary a screen in sight, and she looks up from her book at dinner only when Dad fears he has forgotten her face. But Pinkalicious falls into a bibliophile’s nightmare: She “has read every book at least twice!” Desperate, she tries reading catalogs, cereal boxes, and recipes: arid narrative deserts. Brother Peter casually comments, “Too bad you can’t trade yours for new ones.” Bingo: Pinkalicious promptly mounts her book-filled dollhouse on a pedestal outdoors and publicizes her free lending library. (Encountering no pesky zoning code or HOA obstacles.) That night, too excited to sleep, Pinkalicious finds her old books gone, replaced by new-to-her books. The whole pale-faced Pinkerton family reads through breakfast, with predictably messy consequences. Illustrations hew to the series’ formula, as does the text: problem develops; problem grows more complex; creative solution found by our hero. The advocacy of reading makes this pleasant new entry particularly palatable. Jade presents Asian; Pinkalicious’ community is diverse.
