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HarperCollins (2007), Edition: Illustrated, 40 pages
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
User reviews
LibraryThing member rfewell
The cool kids are all wearing black and pink is for babies. Maybe purple is a good compromise...
LibraryThing member brekimlov
Purplicious (Pinkalicious) is about a young girl that loves the color pink, at first, despite what her classmates thing of her. After being made fun of repeatedly by her peers, she temporarily gives up her love for the color.
This book is a cute story that teaches children to like what they want to
I would read this book to children as young as first grade and as old as fifth grade because of it's subject matter. I would have them talk about a time that may be someone made fun of them for something they like. Teachers should discuss with children how to effectively handle peer pressure on a daily basis.
This book is a cute story that teaches children to like what they want to
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like despite what others might think of them. I think that Purpilicious teaches it's readers that everyone deals with peer pressure. I would read this book to children as young as first grade and as old as fifth grade because of it's subject matter. I would have them talk about a time that may be someone made fun of them for something they like. Teachers should discuss with children how to effectively handle peer pressure on a daily basis.
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LibraryThing member RhondaKillian
Summary: A good book. The text deals with the likes and dislikes of peers. Including topics like, trying to fit in rather than finding others that feel the way you do, having a favorite "something" and wanting it to be a favorite for all your friends to like, as well.
Review: I thought it was a good
Extension Idea: To find value in differences between friends, how we make compromises, and choosing color preferences.
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book for kids that want to be just like everyone else, and how one will try to show how beautiful their favorite color is, then decides it must be a bad color, until she finds a friend who likes purple. Which is a mixture of her favorite color pink and a friends color of a cake; blue. It is delightful how it unravels to solve both little girls plight. Extension Idea: To find value in differences between friends, how we make compromises, and choosing color preferences.
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LibraryThing member AmyPollard
This book is about a little girl who is obsessed with the color pink and all the other girls tease her because they are all into the color black and they say that pink is for babies. The little girl is sad until she finds a friend who appreciates the color pink because it creates purple.
This story
For a classroom connection I would use this book to talk about favorite colors.
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reminds me of myself because even now I love the color pink. I love this entire little book series.For a classroom connection I would use this book to talk about favorite colors.
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LibraryThing member Sierra.Kovacs
This picture book is about a little girl, Pinkalicious, whose favorite color is pink (which is very typical for most little girls!) but all the other little girls like the color black. This causes Pinkalicious to get picked on and the other little girls at school stop playing with her. Pinkalicious
I loved this picture book! The pictures were awesome and the story was too cute.
In the classroom I would have the kids draw a self portrait of themselves and have them color their clothes using only their favorite color. I would also use this story to discuss colors and what other colors are created when mixing primary colors.
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then gets a case of the blues until she discovers another little girl at her school that has the favorite color purple. This makes Pinkalicious realize it’s okay to have your own individual favorite color and she soon returns back to her normal life with her obsession of the color pink.I loved this picture book! The pictures were awesome and the story was too cute.
In the classroom I would have the kids draw a self portrait of themselves and have them color their clothes using only their favorite color. I would also use this story to discuss colors and what other colors are created when mixing primary colors.
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LibraryThing member Ashleyreece
Purplicious is the story about a little girl that loves the color pink. All the other little girls like black , and they pick on Pinkolicious. The other girls tell her pink if for babies, so she decides she doesn't like pink anymore. She wont eat her pink ice cream. At the end of the story
I love this book! It is one of my absolute favorites. My daughter also is in love with this book. I think many can relate to feeling bad about liking something particular when they are teased about it.
I would use this story in a color unit or maybe a unit on self esteem.I would use this story to discuss peer pressure.
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Pinkolicious meets another little girl who is painting a picture. The little girl tells her that pink is a beautiful powerful color. She shows Pinkolicious what she can do when she mixes pink and blue. She creates purple!I love this book! It is one of my absolute favorites. My daughter also is in love with this book. I think many can relate to feeling bad about liking something particular when they are teased about it.
I would use this story in a color unit or maybe a unit on self esteem.I would use this story to discuss peer pressure.
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LibraryThing member AshleyFletcher
Purplicious is about a girl who loves the color pink. Everything she has is pink! However, the girls at school are not liking her pink everything and are starting to tease her. The teasing makes her second guess what it is she really likes so she tries to change one Saturday but is very unhappy. So
I don’t remember being teased over what color I like but I don’t think I would like it either. However, we all have to like what we like no matter what.
In the classroom, I would ask my students to figure out what their favorite color is. I can also have them draw a picture in their favorite color.
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her mom says maybe not all the girls hate pink. The next day in art class she met a girl who was painting a cake but it was blue and she didn’t like it. So she asked for the color pink. Pinkalicious was very surprised that she like pink. So she painted over the blue with pink and it turned purple or Purplicious! They became instant friends.I don’t remember being teased over what color I like but I don’t think I would like it either. However, we all have to like what we like no matter what.
In the classroom, I would ask my students to figure out what their favorite color is. I can also have them draw a picture in their favorite color.
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LibraryThing member rainyday2003
Summary:
Pinkalicious loves pink, everything in here room and all of her possessions are pink. The girls at school are mean to her because she loves pink and the “in color” in school is black. Pinkalicious meets a new friend who likes the color pink and shows her if you mix blue and pink
Personal Reaction:
I like stories that allow you to be yourself and show us its okay to be you. Girls today are always trying to be in the “in crowd”. This story lets you be in your own crowd and still have friends.
Extension Ideas:
1. I would use this book with a younger class when teaching about colors.
2. I would have a older class write in their journals about what color would they want everything to be in. I would allow them to share their ideas.
Pinkalicious loves pink, everything in here room and all of her possessions are pink. The girls at school are mean to her because she loves pink and the “in color” in school is black. Pinkalicious meets a new friend who likes the color pink and shows her if you mix blue and pink
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together it makes purplicious.Personal Reaction:
I like stories that allow you to be yourself and show us its okay to be you. Girls today are always trying to be in the “in crowd”. This story lets you be in your own crowd and still have friends.
Extension Ideas:
1. I would use this book with a younger class when teaching about colors.
2. I would have a older class write in their journals about what color would they want everything to be in. I would allow them to share their ideas.
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LibraryThing member soonergirlam
Summary:
Pinkalicious loves the color pink, but the other girls at school make fun of her because they think pink is for babies. Pinkalicious is sad for awhile. Then, she meets purplicious, a girl who loves the color purple. Pinkalicious has made a new friend.
Personal Reaction:
I thought this book
Classroom Extensions
#1: I would ask the kids to pick their favorite color. Then, I would ask them to draw and color a picture only using that color.
#2: I would ask the kids to journal about situations in which they have been teased and how they overcame it.
Pinkalicious loves the color pink, but the other girls at school make fun of her because they think pink is for babies. Pinkalicious is sad for awhile. Then, she meets purplicious, a girl who loves the color purple. Pinkalicious has made a new friend.
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was realistic because kids get teased at school everyday. It also shows how kids overcome the teasing.Classroom Extensions
#1: I would ask the kids to pick their favorite color. Then, I would ask them to draw and color a picture only using that color.
#2: I would ask the kids to journal about situations in which they have been teased and how they overcame it.
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LibraryThing member jaykay2
Purplicious is about a little girl who's favorite color is pink. She loves pink and everything she owns is pink. Well the other girls at school like the color black. They make fun of her and she becomes lonely. She begins to feel discouraged until a girl in her art class cheers her up. The girl
Personal Reaction:
I like this story because it shows you should always be yourself no matter what other people think. The little girl feels lonely but she still likes the color no matter what. I also like how the girls in her class says EVERYONE likes black now. When EVERYONE in the world doesn't like black. It shows how drastic children's mind work and how the little girl almost begins to change until she is eassured by another little girl.
Extension Ideas:
I would have the children make a collage of their favorite color.
I would have my students write about a time when their friends liked something different from them and how that made them feel.
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needed the color pink and says the color is perfect and powerful. She mixes pink and blue to make purple. The girl become purplicious. Personal Reaction:
I like this story because it shows you should always be yourself no matter what other people think. The little girl feels lonely but she still likes the color no matter what. I also like how the girls in her class says EVERYONE likes black now. When EVERYONE in the world doesn't like black. It shows how drastic children's mind work and how the little girl almost begins to change until she is eassured by another little girl.
Extension Ideas:
I would have the children make a collage of their favorite color.
I would have my students write about a time when their friends liked something different from them and how that made them feel.
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LibraryThing member bsalomon
A little girl get picked on in school because she likes the color pink. Her classmates tell her that pink is a baby color. The little girl gets very upset and decides to give up her favorite color until she meets a little girl in class who likes the color pink. Her classmate tells her that she does
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like pink because you can mix it with blue to get purple, her friends favorite color. This makes the little girl happy and she makes a new friends. Show Less
LibraryThing member ke141703
Summary: This book is about a girl who loves pink but all the other girls make fun of her for it. She tries to not wear any more pink and she feels sad. Then she meets a girl who likes pink just like she does and she relizes it is okay to love pink.
Personal Response: This book is really cute
Classroom Extension Ideas: You could have an art project were the students make a collage of pinks. Also you could have an lesson on being cofortable in your own skin nomatter what.
Personal Response: This book is really cute
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because the artwork is neat and it teaches kids to not be afraid to just be themselves.Classroom Extension Ideas: You could have an art project were the students make a collage of pinks. Also you could have an lesson on being cofortable in your own skin nomatter what.
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LibraryThing member Cindy_22
Summary:
A girl named Pinkalicious loves the color pink but all the other girls tease her about it and say she should like the color black. Even though they tease her about it at first she still loves the color pink. As the story goes on she starts to become sad and starts to not like pink until she
Personal Reaction:
I liked this book because the girl knew what she loved and would not let the other kids bring her down. For such a young girl in the book she shows dedication to love what you want even though other people may not like it.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Make a chart of colors and have the kids say what their favorite colors are. They can see who has the same interest as them and also shows they are not alone some kids have them same taste as them.
2. Have the kids paint a picture with a partner using each others favorite colors.
A girl named Pinkalicious loves the color pink but all the other girls tease her about it and say she should like the color black. Even though they tease her about it at first she still loves the color pink. As the story goes on she starts to become sad and starts to not like pink until she
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meets a girl names Purplicious who shows her blue and pink can make a pretty color purple.Personal Reaction:
I liked this book because the girl knew what she loved and would not let the other kids bring her down. For such a young girl in the book she shows dedication to love what you want even though other people may not like it.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Make a chart of colors and have the kids say what their favorite colors are. They can see who has the same interest as them and also shows they are not alone some kids have them same taste as them.
2. Have the kids paint a picture with a partner using each others favorite colors.
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LibraryThing member ErinH611
I think this book is absolutely adorable to read at a elementary level. My little sister who is seven years old did a reading fair project on this book and it is actually our all time favorite. I love how the little girl likes the color pink so much. She ends up getting made fun of until she
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changes her favorite color. It teaches a good lesson for little girls around the elementary age! Show Less
LibraryThing member KatherineLo
Pinkalicous loves the color pink but all her friends love black. Her friends ostracize her for sticking to her guns and not conforming to what everyone else is doing. Soon after she thinks she might conform to their norm she meets a new girl in class that loves the color purple a combination of red
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and blue. She quickly sticks to her guns again and loves the color pink but she thinks the color purple is nice too. I just love purple too. In the classroom: story time, listening skills, sticking to what you know is right Show Less
LibraryThing member schroem
This book is written at a 2.6 grade reading level. It was very creative and will show kids that they should stay true to themselves. Someone may tease another about something that they like, but what they like may turn out to be pretty powerful.
LibraryThing member TastefullyJReef
This book helps explain to readers that it is okay if everyone likes different things. While addressing the fact that bullying makes children said and can temporarily change who they are as well as what they like. In the end it conveys that no matter who you are there is someone out their who has
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LibraryThing member memre
Summary:
Pinkalicious loves pink. She has everything pink and pink is her favorite girl until all the girls at school said pink is over and black is the new color. Pink cried and was feeling blue, she did not want anything pink not even pink ice cream. One day at school she meant a girl who told her
Personal Reaction:
You need to stick to your favorite color for you do not know if it is a powerful color. Stay true to yourself and do not change because everyone says pink is sissy.
Classroom extension:
1. In classroom, I will read purplicious for it is a great book about being true to yourself.
2. In addition, I will ask each child to draw a picture with their favorite color and to be different is okay.
Pinkalicious loves pink. She has everything pink and pink is her favorite girl until all the girls at school said pink is over and black is the new color. Pink cried and was feeling blue, she did not want anything pink not even pink ice cream. One day at school she meant a girl who told her
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pink is a powerful girl watch. She mixed pink with blue and it made purple. Purplicious and pinkalicious are now best friends.Personal Reaction:
You need to stick to your favorite color for you do not know if it is a powerful color. Stay true to yourself and do not change because everyone says pink is sissy.
Classroom extension:
1. In classroom, I will read purplicious for it is a great book about being true to yourself.
2. In addition, I will ask each child to draw a picture with their favorite color and to be different is okay.
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LibraryThing member cseiger
Purplicious follows a young girl, Pinkalicious, who loves the color pink. One day in school, a group of students decides that they no longer like the color pink, and that only black is acceptable. They begin to tease her about her love of pink. She briefly doubts her love of pink before realizing
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that it is part of who she is. This book would be a good book to use in the classroom because it reminds students that they should not let others dictate their interests. The book is definitely geared more towards younger girls, so I would most likely give this to individual students rather than use it in whole class. Show Less
LibraryThing member AlexCCrupper
Summary:
This picture book is a story of Pinkalicious and how she was teased for loving the color pink. The majority of the children she went to school with began to say that black was the new "it" color. Pinkalicious started feeling lonely and sad and began to change her pink ways. In doing this
Personal Reaction:
As long as I can remember blue has always been my favorite color, but being a girl sometimes when I was younger it was looked down upon and got me teased for being a tom boy. I was able to relate to Pinkalicious.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Purplicious is a good book to use when teaching about bullying because it gives and example as simple as being teased about a color which I feel young children can relate to.
2. It can also be a good book when talking about colors and showing that combining colors can get you others colors. It would also be fun to have an art project where on different spots on the same paper you mix different colors to make other colors, and then at the end mix all the mixed colors together and show that usually most of those colors all mixed together will get them a brownish or blackish color.
This picture book is a story of Pinkalicious and how she was teased for loving the color pink. The majority of the children she went to school with began to say that black was the new "it" color. Pinkalicious started feeling lonely and sad and began to change her pink ways. In doing this
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she began to have the blues which made her even more unhappy. At the end of the story she found a friend that also enjoyed pink, and shared with Pinkalicious that pink was a strong color. Personal Reaction:
As long as I can remember blue has always been my favorite color, but being a girl sometimes when I was younger it was looked down upon and got me teased for being a tom boy. I was able to relate to Pinkalicious.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Purplicious is a good book to use when teaching about bullying because it gives and example as simple as being teased about a color which I feel young children can relate to.
2. It can also be a good book when talking about colors and showing that combining colors can get you others colors. It would also be fun to have an art project where on different spots on the same paper you mix different colors to make other colors, and then at the end mix all the mixed colors together and show that usually most of those colors all mixed together will get them a brownish or blackish color.
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LibraryThing member Spinea1
Excellent book to use to teach students how to read the way the author wants them to. I used this book to model how to read punctuation,and boded words correctly.This book would be an excellent to teach various comprehension skills such as; character traits,setting,problem and solution,and
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conclusion. This story is wonderful way to incorporate readers response. Show Less
LibraryThing member catherineparry
A sweet story of a girl whose personality is perfect in pink, but feels the pressure to fit in. In the end she finds companionship when she stays true to who she is.
A good story for k-2, especially if paired with other stories of a similar nature. Would be a good writing prompt for things you
A good story for k-2, especially if paired with other stories of a similar nature. Would be a good writing prompt for things you
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Our pink-loving heroine finds herself persecuted by the other girls at school in this follow-up to her initial adventure, chronicled in the eponymous Pinkalicious. When her classmates declare that pink is passé (and even putrid) and that black is where it's at, Pinkalicious is thrown into a funk,
As with its predecessor, I was singularly unimpressed with Purplicious, finding the artwork flat and uninteresting, the heroine obnoxious, and the story unappealing. Leaving aside the unlikelihood of a scenario in which little goth girls torment pink princesses - is this really a thing? - I was troubled here by the fact that the bullying issue is resolved for the main character through her interaction with another girl, who offers her some reinforcement, when it comes to her love of pink, rather than through any internal realization that tastes vary, that it's perfectly acceptable for some little girls to like black, and others to like pink, and that bullying anyone for their favorite color is both mean-spirited and stupid. I rather regret that I've committed to reading this entire series, as part of a project, as so far I have been less-than-thrilled. There are far better stories out there about bullying, and far-better series about sparkle-loving girls - this one is not recommended.
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especially when no one will play with her. Attempting to fit in by abandoning her favorite color, she has vanilla ice cream instead of Pink Passion Fruit Paradise, and even begins to paint a picture using black paint. Then she meets a girl who loves blue, and together they make an amazing new hue: purple!As with its predecessor, I was singularly unimpressed with Purplicious, finding the artwork flat and uninteresting, the heroine obnoxious, and the story unappealing. Leaving aside the unlikelihood of a scenario in which little goth girls torment pink princesses - is this really a thing? - I was troubled here by the fact that the bullying issue is resolved for the main character through her interaction with another girl, who offers her some reinforcement, when it comes to her love of pink, rather than through any internal realization that tastes vary, that it's perfectly acceptable for some little girls to like black, and others to like pink, and that bullying anyone for their favorite color is both mean-spirited and stupid. I rather regret that I've committed to reading this entire series, as part of a project, as so far I have been less-than-thrilled. There are far better stories out there about bullying, and far-better series about sparkle-loving girls - this one is not recommended.
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LibraryThing member cubsfan3410
Cute but NOT a good as PINKALICIOUS!
LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan
This book was much better than book one. Pinkalicious is still whiny but we see another side of her. Most of the girls in school are over the color pink. It’s on to black now. Until she makes a new friend that shows her what magic can happen when you mix pink and blue. Still not impressed with
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this series, especially because of the “licious”. I blame Beyonce. She had a major hit with Bootylicious, and now we are stuck with “licious” in our lexicon. Show Less
Awards
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Iowa Goldfinch Award (Nominee — 2013)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2007
Physical description
40 p.; 10.24 x 0.39 inches
ISBN
9780061244063