Purplicious (Pinkalicious)

After reading Pinkalicious daily to my children and loving it. I decided to buy Purplicious to add some variety but after reading it I chose to not read to my children. It was very negative and seemed to have a lot of name calling, etc. I would read this book before reading it to your children to make your own educated decision.

The reason I bought this book was because my daughters had absolutely loved the first book "pinkalicious". Reading it aloud to them at bedtime made them giggle and laugh as we read it together. This sequel is so bad its almost beyond comprehension what the author is thinking. The kids at school ridicule and are so mean to pinkalicious that it takes the fun out of the story. The whole mood is dark and hateful. The first time I read this story to my kids they were sad seeing how pinkalicious is so depressed by being teased and treated bad at her school. The upbeat ending on the last page doesnt fix the 10 pages of darkness.

My kids love Pinkalicous! And so we started working through the series. This book however left my kids sad! The girls in black bully and belittle Pinkalicious. This storyline takes up the majority of the book, with Pinkalicious writing in her journal about a lack of hope, crying and feeling alone because of the bullying. It summarizes well the feelings of being a victim of bullying. In the last three pages, she meets a girl in purple, who uses pink to improve her painting, and last page, “[purple] is purplicious.” No further mention of the mean girls. No, “the mean girls were amazed at what pink could do” or not even a longer ending to redeem it. 22 pages of depressing story, and five short pages, including full page pictures, of pink being useful. I get not every story needs a happy ending, but this was a story where the mean girls were mean, pink was bullied, and is a sad story for anyone who has been through bullying or even my kids who have never yet experienced mean kids. We changed the ending when we read it to our youngest (3.5). Just one or two more pages about Pinkalicious bouncing back and reclaiming pink or purple would have been a far more positive, and yet still real, ending.

Awful messages here for children: cruelty, homophobia, nasty behavior that goes unaddressed. It's like an instructional manual for how to be a bully. The main character learns nothing--does not learn to be kinder to her brother, does not stand up for herself. I really regret borrowing this from the library and not previewing it first before reading it to my 5 year old.
Ugh. I can't believe this got published.

Like all books in this series, the pictures are simply fantastic. When you look at the background, you see details that make you appreciate the amazing amount of work and thought that went into the imagery, like handwriting across the faces of the buildings. Each book in the series has a page that's just striking - in this book, there is a page where everything is pink and is a huge contrast when you turn the page. Each book also has something to read besides just the main text - in this book, there are pages torn from notebooks to read (a subtle lesson that writing in a journal can help to deal with life's problems). Each book in the series also makes a powerful portrayal of a realistic emotion. Pinkalicious is human, she gets upset, she has likes and dislikes. To me, this makes it easy to relate to the character and helps to learn how to cope with reality.

We bought this series for our 4-year old daughter. Since she loves the Purplicious book. Clearly, one goal of the storyline is to expose girls to experiences like peer pressure, fitting in, reassessing your own passions, and how to deal with your problems.

Our daughter loves blue, but she's under a lot of peer pressure at school to like pink. I was glad to see that the book provides a situation to help her relate to this pressure.

I'm glad that my daughter loves this book because, as you may have noticed, I like reading it, too!

Did you know that only 2% of the population choose pink as their favorite color? that's 3% if you look at females only, and most of that comes from women over the age 25.

17% of the population choose pink as their least favorite color, which makes it the second most hated color among U.S. and European citizens, beat only by brown. This illustrates how there comes a time in almost every girls life where they become "too good" for pink. Pink often becomes associated with princess snobbery. One of the many values in this book is that demonstrates, when girls are young enough to care, that the black phase we eventually reach after pink is another form of snobbery.

After reading this book, I know that my daughter, when she get's to her "black" phase, will maintain compassion and respect for anybody that holds vigil for pink. Yes, this book was sad in parts, but my 6-year old daughter liked it and I know it helped her gain valuable insights.

When my wife brought this book home from the library, I was skeptical. "Oh great, another book about female empowerment and how it's ok to be different. Booooor-ing!" I was relieved to find that this book had nothing of the sort. The sheer joy our family took in introducing our preschool aged daughter to crippling depression and loneliness made this an instant classic. Like most 21st century dads, I find myself awkwardly tiptoeing around complex gender identity and these newfangled pronouns. Not this book! It harkens back to a simpler time where if you catch a boy liking the color pink, you call him a sissy. Rosie Revere Engineer and Iggy Peck Architect might appeal to the STEM crowd, but I don't want my daughter to become some engineer that hangs out with math nerds. This book taught her all kinds of new insults to hurl at people. A real page-turner!

I literally went through the book and white-outed a LOT of it. It is such a negative book and is SO bad for our children. WHY would you write such a dreadful book. Yes, peer pressure can be dreadful but write something empowering than this garbage. It is terrible. Do not let your young, beautiful children read this. I always had to modify and now I"ve literally whited out the crap sentences. Bad author.

My daughter just received this book for her fifth birthday and we read it last night before bed. I should have read it first and then "disappeared" it because it was awful. The language was out of control, with lots of name calling ("sissy") and other things we don't say in our house ("that stinks", "you're a baby", etc.) The premise of the book is that a little girl gets teased ruthlessly at school because she likes the color pink. She then falls into a pseudo-depression and only climbs out when she meets someone else who tells her it's ok to like pink.

1) I don't like the language. My kids don't hear people talk to each other that way, and I don't think a book is the way to introduce it.
2) I don't like the portrayal of bullying. Again, I have no doubt that bullying will come up eventually, but this is a book geared toward little kids. It's not an appropriate topic for preschoolers, particularly the way it is presented. The girls in the book are more like teenagers or at the very least middle schoolers.
3) I don't like the solution. Be sad until you meet someone else just like you (that isn't in your family)? That's not problem solving or empowering. That's lazy writing.

This book will disappear from our house in the next few days. I'm sorry someone spent good money on it.

I love the Geiko commercial with the drill sergeant therapist and those of you who have bashed this book need a good dose of this guy! This book addresses exactly what your children are exposed to at school and if you don't believe it...spend some time on the playground during recess. One of the reviewers said this book missed the mark...no I think YOU missed the whole point of the story. Hopefully you aren't sheltering your precious little princess from everything negative or mean. If you don't teach her now how to deal with negativity and meanness, she is going to be ill-equipped to ever handle it. My goodness. This book does not glorify the girls who are mean, instead it presents the reader with two types of behavior and character. I don't think your little girl is going to finish the book choosing the mean girls to imitate but rather I would think she would choose to be her own person and hopefully more closely identify with the child who supported and encouraged Purplicious in her love of purple. Sheesh....you people need to take the lead with your children and use a book such as this as a lesson to be learned. My 6 year old granddaughter loves the book and she "gets" it! Sadly many of you who are older and who should be wiser DON'T get it.

Whhaaaat a disappointment! My kids haven't read the pinkalicious book, but they are normal little girls, who (despite my attempts to be a non gender bias family) LOVE pink, purple, princesses etc etc. So of course, this book was a huge attraction, sitting there on the library shelf.
There are maybe three pages that have purple on it? This story reads as a "how to" for bullying. There are a multitude of ways and means to go about having bullying discussions in your family. This, this is NOT the way to go about it.
How much better for your kids would it have been for her to continually have the mindset that she is ok how she is? Maybe a small amount of doubt, but still surround her with the colour she loves. That would be giving tools to overcome bullying, not the feeble amount of positivity at the end (that only comes after she meets someone else who doesn't like black, mind you).
Terrible, terrible, terrible

I thought this story had a positive message. Many of the reviews said that the book promotes bullying. I think just the opposite. The main character has to face teasing for liking something unpopular, but in the end she discovers that it's okay to be herself...and she makes a new friend as a result. The girls who tease her in the story are just like any other elementary students. I teach first grade, and believe me, even very young girls can be really mean. I think the moral of the story is that it is okay to be different and to be true to yourself. Other than that the story is not as cute as Pinkalicious, I really don't understand why this story got so many bad reviews! My preschooler really likes it.

Pinkalicious is funny, original, and very entertaining, even for adults. (It's one I don't mind reading over and over)

Not your usual kid fare and likely to become a classic.

Unfortunately, like most sequels, Purplicious and Goldilicious are not nearly as good as the original

Pinkalicious: 5 stars.

Purplicious: 3 stars, Still interesting and worthy of 4 stars except that the negativity, cliquishness, teasing is better suited for older kids. Maybe.

Goldilicious: 3 stars - An imaginary unicorn called Goldalicious makes for a very promising start, but then the story bogs down in repetition with not a lot of sophistication. More suited to younger kids as Pinkalicious but not as interesting.

Other children's books I rate five stars are "Dexter Beasley and the Big Blue Beastie," "Click, Clack, Moo" and "Princess and the Pizza"

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Purplicious was a wonderful follow up to Pinkalicious. I loved how, despite what her classmates thought, Pinkalicious never really waved from her love of people. This is a story about staying true to yourself despite what trends may be popular at the moment.

This is a wonderful story for parents with young children.

I was a bit disappointed, as well as surprised since the first story was very lighthearted. I was expecting something a little different; something similar to the first story. I thought the story would focus on Purplicious liking Purple and turning Purple as in the first book when she turned pink. However, that was not the case.
This book, though it gives a good message, is a little unbalanced. It is a mature subject that may not be best for everyone. The message comes, albeit a little late. I would have liked for there to be more pages with a more positive slant, but that's not what the author wrote. So, although I agree with most of the reviewers who wouldn't read this book to a very young child, I am going to read it to my older students (3rd-5th) because, being in Special education, they deal with this on a daily basis. I like the message, so it will stay in my library.

When I purchased this book, I thought it was going to be a book about the color purple, just as Pinkalicious was about pink. It's not that at all. Purplicious doesn't have quite the same charm as the original Pinkalicious book, but it's still an interesting story starring Pinkalicious. In this story, the color pink is "out" and Pinkalicious has to deal with her peers who only seem to like black and who look down on pink. Maybe Pinkalicious isn't the best role model in this story because she seems to rely on other girls her age to define herself (she eventually starts to abandon her love of pink until she meets someone else who likes pink), but it seems kind of realistic. My 4-year-old still enjoys the story, so I think it's still a good one to have in the collection. Just think of it as another chapter in the life of Pinkalicious.

I was surprised at how many negative comments there were. My daughter loved this book. She was going through a phase at school were "nobody likes me" and "everybody picks on me and calls me a baby". I had no idea what this story was about when I read picked it up to read with my daughter (it was a gift). We read it and it really hit home. She could relate to Pinkilicious and liked how at the end she found a friend who liked her for being her and that she didn't have to change to find people who were nice. It gave me a great opportunity to talk to her about things her friends said and how to handle them.

Nasty, unkind book with unlikeable ideas and characters portrayed within. This book was gifted to us, unfortunately. The book is full of bullying and stereotypes. Multiple times a boy is referred to as being a "sissy" or "baby" for liking the color pink, a nasty bit of gender bullying that is NEVER resolved or addressed.

The character is made to be depressed, cry, write dramatic diary pages and break from her understanding parents in a huge display. If you're interested in introducing the idea of depression, ostracization, emotional turmoil, hatred and most importantly gender conformity, here's the book for you. If you like the idea of a group of elitist girls portrayed as referring to the unique interests of a main character as "putrid" "passe" "stinks" "over" and "ugly", then you're set. There's even a scene where the bullying follows the main character onto the bus where all the children refuse to sit near the main character and taunt her, calling her a baby and calling her brother a sissy for liking pink. Seriously? Who thought this was a good idea in a cutesy book for very young girls?

Including two pages at the end where, not addressing any of the ugliness in the other 99% of the book, the main character finds someone who is willing to include her interests into hers is NOT sufficient to make up for the rest of the book. Not even close. I'm not donating this one, I'm chucking it out, lest some other little girl be subject to a book full of the types of things that we as parents, and as a culture, ought to be weeding out of our society.

My daughters who are 3 and 4 love Pinkalicious. We got Purplicious at the library as it seemed like a natural progression. I'm thankful that I read the story first before I read it to the girls. This is NOT a story for young readers. While the story is true to life and has some powerful lessons, the content is quite mature for young readers. I would caution parents against reading this story to children under the age of 6 or 7. And with older children, I would read the book with them the first few times to discuss the story and give them a chance to ask questions.

In Victoria & Elizabeth Kann's second book Pinkalicious' journeys continue. This time Pinkalicious learns that there is another beautiful color than Pink.

One day during art class, Pinkalicious is made fun of by two girls for her obsessive love of Pink. According to them, Black is the new Pink, and Pink is only for little girls. Pinkalicious starts to feel 'blue' even though she tries to stay true to Pink by writing in her Pink Diary that Pink is the best. Back in art class, she meets a girl who is painting a blue cake and asks to use some of her pink paint. She asks why and her answer is simple: Pink is the best! She uses some of her Pink to turn her blue cake into a purple cake.

The Kann sisters continue their simple message in a short and cute story: stay true to who you are and like who you are. They also continue their bright gorgeous pictures that create a new world. While Purplicious is cute and well written it stands second to Pinkalicious. Better still, a great book for any young girl.

I was a bit disappointed, as well as surprised since the first story was very lighthearted. I was expecting something a little different; something similar to the first story. I thought the story would focus on Purplicious liking Purple and turning Purple as in the first book when she turned pink. However, that was not the case.
This book, though it gives a good message, is a little unbalanced. It is a mature subject that may not be best for everyone. The message comes, albeit a little late. I would have liked for there to be more pages with a more positive slant, but that's not what the author wrote. So, although I agree with most of the reviewers who wouldn't read this book to a very young child, I am going to read it to my older students (3rd-5th) because, being in Special education, they deal with this on a daily basis. I like the message, so it will stay in my library.

When I purchased this book, I thought it was going to be a book about the color purple, just as Pinkalicious was about pink. It's not that at all. Purplicious doesn't have quite the same charm as the original Pinkalicious book, but it's still an interesting story starring Pinkalicious. In this story, the color pink is "out" and Pinkalicious has to deal with her peers who only seem to like black and who look down on pink. Maybe Pinkalicious isn't the best role model in this story because she seems to rely on other girls her age to define herself (she eventually starts to abandon her love of pink until she meets someone else who likes pink), but it seems kind of realistic. My 4-year-old still enjoys the story, so I think it's still a good one to have in the collection. Just think of it as another chapter in the life of Pinkalicious.

I was surprised at how many negative comments there were. My daughter loved this book. She was going through a phase at school were "nobody likes me" and "everybody picks on me and calls me a baby". I had no idea what this story was about when I read picked it up to read with my daughter (it was a gift). We read it and it really hit home. She could relate to Pinkilicious and liked how at the end she found a friend who liked her for being her and that she didn't have to change to find people who were nice. It gave me a great opportunity to talk to her about things her friends said and how to handle them.

Nasty, unkind book with unlikeable ideas and characters portrayed within. This book was gifted to us, unfortunately. The book is full of bullying and stereotypes. Multiple times a boy is referred to as being a "sissy" or "baby" for liking the color pink, a nasty bit of gender bullying that is NEVER resolved or addressed.

The character is made to be depressed, cry, write dramatic diary pages and break from her understanding parents in a huge display. If you're interested in introducing the idea of depression, ostracization, emotional turmoil, hatred and most importantly gender conformity, here's the book for you. If you like the idea of a group of elitist girls portrayed as referring to the unique interests of a main character as "putrid" "passe" "stinks" "over" and "ugly", then you're set. There's even a scene where the bullying follows the main character onto the bus where all the children refuse to sit near the main character and taunt her, calling her a baby and calling her brother a sissy for liking pink. Seriously? Who thought this was a good idea in a cutesy book for very young girls?

Including two pages at the end where, not addressing any of the ugliness in the other 99% of the book, the main character finds someone who is willing to include her interests into hers is NOT sufficient to make up for the rest of the book. Not even close. I'm not donating this one, I'm chucking it out, lest some other little girl be subject to a book full of the types of things that we as parents, and as a culture, ought to be weeding out of our society.

My daughters who are 3 and 4 love Pinkalicious. We got Purplicious at the library as it seemed like a natural progression. I'm thankful that I read the story first before I read it to the girls. This is NOT a story for young readers. While the story is true to life and has some powerful lessons, the content is quite mature for young readers. I would caution parents against reading this story to children under the age of 6 or 7. And with older children, I would read the book with them the first few times to discuss the story and give them a chance to ask questions.

In Victoria & Elizabeth Kann's second book Pinkalicious' journeys continue. This time Pinkalicious learns that there is another beautiful color than Pink.

One day during art class, Pinkalicious is made fun of by two girls for her obsessive love of Pink. According to them, Black is the new Pink, and Pink is only for little girls. Pinkalicious starts to feel 'blue' even though she tries to stay true to Pink by writing in her Pink Diary that Pink is the best. Back in art class, she meets a girl who is painting a blue cake and asks to use some of her pink paint. She asks why and her answer is simple: Pink is the best! She uses some of her Pink to turn her blue cake into a purple cake.

The Kann sisters continue their simple message in a short and cute story: stay true to who you are and like who you are. They also continue their bright gorgeous pictures that create a new world. While Purplicious is cute and well written it stands second to Pinkalicious. Better still, a great book for any young girl.

People seem to dislike this book because it deals with a reality that young kids actually face: teasing. Readers are disappointed that Purplicious is not a fluffy book in which a cute kid does cute things, with much hilarity ensuing. I am a parent of a 6-year-old, and I have volunteered in a kindergarten classroom. Teasing happens. It hurts kids, sometimes a lot. My daughter said recently, with tears in her eyes, "I still like princesses but the kids make fun of me. Now I can't like them anymore." This is the reality that kids actually face. As parents, how do we help children deal with it? Do we hand them a book about a cute kid with no problems? That doesn't help kids. If anything, books like that make them feel like something is wrong with them for having problems. I applaud Purplicious for addressing the issue of teasing. My complaint is with the ending, which is not realistic. The main character is "saved" by someone else. Kids need to learn how to stand up for themselves.

My daughter and I love Pinkalicious and were delighted to find Purplicious. We were a little surprised to find sparkly Pinkalicious having such a rough time, but it was a wonderful opportunity to talk about kind and unkind behavior, the value of individuality, and what a treat it can be to meet new people. Unfortunately my kindergarten daughter is already experiencing a lot of the behavior described in Purplicious and I was glad to see a character that she already loved having similar experiences.

Because it was so exaggerated and the message was so clear, it has given me and my daughter a very useful vocabulary for talking about how she's feeling. We can also talk about how treating others the way that Pinkalicious was affects them. The appearance of Purplicious was a nice way of showing my daughter how important kindness is, even when it seems so small.

We still love Purplicious. My son loves Purplicious. We read it just as often as Pinkalicious. And I'm really looking forward to Goldilicious.

Many people ridiculously claiming that this book is negative and mean spirited, however it seems to me that they are slightly delusional about bullying. Little girls can be brutal, and Pinkalicious tries to conform, like most children would after being teased, only to eventually rise above her bullies's intimation, and once again embrace her wonderful Pinkalicious self.

It's about self-discovery and non-conformity, and it's delivered in a delicious purple package. The reviewers that rated the book so harshly are really kidding themselves if they don't think children can be brutal with one another; and honestly the kids words were not as savage as the other reviewers made them out to be. Teasing a girl for wearing and liking a particular color, is NOTHING compared to what I've heard and even experienced myself. I think people who don't like it for that particular reason might not be raising their children to be brave, and to handle challenges that WILL happen with bullies.

Get real people

Pinkalicious is funny, original, and very entertaining, even for adults. (It's one I don't mind reading over and over)

Not your usual kid fare and likely to become a classic.

Unfortunately, like most sequels, Purplicious and Goldilicious are not nearly as good as the original

Pinkalicious: 5 stars.

Purplicious: 3 stars, Still interesting and worthy of 4 stars except that the negativity, cliquishness, teasing is better suited for older kids. Maybe.

Goldilicious: 3 stars - An imaginary unicorn called Goldalicious makes for a very promising start, but then the story bogs down in repetition with not a lot of sophistication. More suited to younger kids as Pinkalicious but not as interesting.

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This was a good book to follow with Pinkalicious and Goldilicious, but originally I did not like it. Felt like it is too strong for younger than 5ish. My daughter LOVES pink and Pinkalicious and Goldilicious and this book almost made her not like pink and herself for a bit. Got it out to try it again now that she is in school and it is fine. She doesn't like black for the most part and now can read this book without her taking it personally and feeling like she can't wear pink or just feeling bad about herself. I think this book is much too strong for younger children.

This story begins with such nasty connotations I was furious reading it to my 4 year old daughter. Sure, there’s a time & place unfortunately to prepare her for mean girls. Bedtime is not that time.

We loved Pink & Aqua. But if you’re searching for a bedtime story for your little girl, I would STRONGLY advise against this book.

I wanted to counter some of the negative reviews of this book, because I really liked the message and intent of Purplicious. The main character, who loves pink, gets a lot of pressure from other girls at school to start wearing black. How she copes with this, and remains true to herself, even when she gets too sad to wear pink for a short time, is a really important message. My favorite line from the book: "I am who I am and I like pink."

This book does aim for a slightly older audience than Pinkalicious, but the message is really important. Pinkalicious does not give in and follow the crowd of mean girls who all wear black, and in the end she meets a new friend who doesn't follow the crowd either. In addition, I think the book is also about not growing up too fast, and changing to trends that are too mature for younger girls, with pink representing childhood and black representing the looming pre-teen years. Girls really need this message!

We learned about Pinkalicious through my triplets Scholastic order forms at kindergarten. They're 6. Pinkalicious is the cutest book series for girls, especially the girly girls like my daughter, lol. It's relatively new and so glad they're coming out with more books in the series. They have dolls and other items to buy separetly and my daughter already has the small doll and really wants the unicorn, Goldilicious. Pinkalicious is such a sweet and kind girl so it's a nice story line for young girls and shows good friendship and fun! I hear there's a musical too, which would be neat to see. I'm hoping they'll come out with a cartoon, which would be so fun!

I was very surprised to read such negative reviews about the book. Although I respect the right of any parent to disagree with the message sent, I thought (and my 4 year old agreed) that Purplicious is a fun book. We actually read Purplicious first, so I did not have the expectations that perhaps come with reading Pinkilicious first. The fact is that even at a young age, children must deal with the reality that there are trends other classmates may endorse that a child doesn't like. I love the message that it is ok to be yourself and to have your own likes that aren't dictated by the crowd. I also think it's empowering to learn that there are people outside the regular circle of friends who may agree with or support you. My daughter identified with the themes even at her age. And I have to say, it's refreshing to see children's books that acknowledge real world issues. The three year old just likes the idea of a purple cake.
In short, we enjoy both books at our house.

My 3 year old loves pinkalicious because it's about a little girl who eats a bunch of pink cupcakes and turns pink and then has to eat green food to turn back to normal. This is fun for her. Purplicious, as other posters say, is about everyone making fun of pink and then one little girl at the end likes pink because you can make purple by mixing pink with blue. My duaghter just doesn't 'get' it, so she continually goes back to pinkalicious and avoids this book. I do realize the books are rated for older kids, but because she loved Pinkalicious, I assumed this would have similar appeal and it does not.

This book has a very valuable lesson. I read the other reviews, mostly negative, but my 5 year old loved Pinkalicious so much all she talked about was waiting for her school library to get Purpilicious. I ordered this book for Easter, and yes, the "mean girls" in this book are just that--mean, but that is the whole lesson and point of the book--be proud of who you are, regardless of what others think! And in the end, you may even learn something more! I loved the book so much I ordered a second one for my daughter's school library.

I disagree with some of the reviews on this book. I find the subject matter as a way to discuss other children's behavior with my own child. Another reviewer is right, if you are going to protect your child from this book, are you going to run to school each day to help your child understand why other children are being mean? Just like movies, not every book is going to be idealistic and uplifting. You have to be willing to show your children everything and help them to know they can trust you to discuss it openly. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but honestly the book isn't that depressing. I like to exaggerate the voices and make my children laugh. And then I use those moments to ask them how they would feel if someone said those things to them.

*Audiobook edition*

"Pinkalicious was at school and all the girls liked black. I loved the best part when she had a purple cake and when she used a pink crayon with blue crayons and it made purple. And she said 'Pink is powerful.' The other girls really did like black."

My 5-year-old daughter and I loved Pinkilicious. Since Purple is her favorite color, we couldn't wait to read Purplicious. What a shock! I just spent page after page explaining to her about bad names we don't call other people. The children in the book taunt Pinkilicious for clinging to a "baby" color like Pink, which would be ok, but did we have to have them calling each other names? The highlight (or lowlight) was when I had to explain what Pinkilicious meant when she called her little brother a "sissy". I usually screen my kids' books pretty carefully, but when the author is one we've read and loved before I sometimes let my guard down. Oops! So, if you'd like to avoid awkward vocabulary lessons with your child, avoid this book.

My 4 year old loves Pinkalicious, so I was excited about Puplicious when we saw it. Because of the poor reviews I didn't purchase it. A few days ago my daughter saw this book at the library and picked it up. I am so glad that we didn't waste our money buying it. I hate reading this to my daughter and I can't wait until we return it. It's a story about girls who bully Pinkalicious because they don't like the fact that she wears pink. In the end she finds one person who likes pink and then she's happy again. It's a pretty pointless story-don't waste your money.

I bought Pinkalicious and Purplicious at the same time for my twin Granddaughters. One of whom "must" have pink and the other one "must" have purple. I was tickled pink (yes, pun intended) to find them each a book for their birthdays about "their" color. They loved them and I was more than impressed with the leassons in the books. Especially Purplicious, Pinkalicious let herself be affected by the whims of the group and do the "in" thing until she meet Purplicious and decided she could make her own decisions about what she liked. In this day and age, with so much peer pressure I believe this is something to learn early. You don't have to go along with the crowd to fit in.

My daughter and I loved this book! It perfectly displays a little girl's emotions with things they like and the struggle to be their own person! The value in this book is one that every little girl should take to heart: Just because it is popular to like one thing, doesn't mean that you have to give up what you like. No matter how alone you feel, there is always someone out there who will like the same thing! So, there is nothing wrong with being who you are!" When reading this book, my daughter and I talk about things such as whether or not she should always follow the crowd, or stand up and be her own person (although not exactly in those words). Any person with a young daughter should consider this book, despite the other negative reviews.

We bought the book Pinkilicious and absolutely loved it and thought purplicious would be a good addition however we were very disappointed when the entire book with the exception of 3 pages were positive. It was very negative and had a horrible message for kids. I would NOT buy this book. Actually, after buying it, I had to throw it out b/c I wouldn't even give it to someone as it's so negative.
It's really disappointing b/c Pinkilicious was so well written. I hope the author reads these comments as construction criticism.

I have three daughters-we currently read Pinkalicious a least once a day. It is fanciful, sweet and fun. Purplicous is awful. It mentions mean girls making fun of the main character for liking pink. There is one redeeming PAGE at the end of a new friend liking Purple, accepting her for liking pink! It was a gift and we actually got it before Pinkalicious. I actually "Good-willed" Purplicious because of the content- then we received it as another gift(it is hidden again). I personally do not want my 5 and 3 year old to focus on other kids making fun of them. I know it is inevitable but really? do we need a book to spotlight it?? It is a weak take on bullying. Don't buy this. It's got a good cover- that's it. Enjoy Pinkalicious forever.

Whomever allowed this book out on the market really made a bad call. Like other reviewers here, in our household we LOVE Pinkalicious and I ordered Purplicious the moment I saw it.

I was appalled to read "pink stinks", "pink is for babies", "pink ice cream is for sissies". Who would use the word "sissies" in a children's book -- really, a toddler's book?

I won't even put this book in our donation box because I don't want it circulating among any children.