I can't get over how uptight people are - namely parents. I bet if an experiment was conducted murderers have had a book like this in their part at some point! Heart attack alert! The book has a character that - jokingly - 'imagines' the parent(s) as an evil sorcerer. Not recommended.ĭoes anyone else find that reading reviews is sometimes more entertaining than the actual reading of the book? This is especially true with a lot of children's books. There are infinitely better stories out there about girls and unicorns - try Uni the Unicorn, for starters - and it is to such titles that I would direct readers, rather than to these books. That said, I think if anything the quality of storytelling has decreased, as I've read through subsequent books. As mentioned in previous reviews, I am reading this entire series for a work-related project, otherwise I probably wouldn't have continued past the initial title, given how unimpressed I was with it. This sort of thing - issues going unresolved in the story - seems quite common in these books. While I understand that young children don't always exhibit the best behavior, I find it odd that Pinkalicious' lack of respect for her elders (as in previous stories, she is rude to her parents here) and for her home (she makes a mess, playing in the living room) is never really addressed in the story. I continue to find Victoria Kann's artwork flat and unappealing, and her heroine intensely unlikable. Like its predecessors, Goldilicious is a hot mess: poorly written, poorly illustrated, and poorly thought out. Despite these contretemps, at the end of the day Pinkalicious discovers that her friend is waiting for her at bedtime.

Pinkalicious' brother Peter also gets in on the action, kidnapping the unicorn, who escapes and is transformed into a mermaid (sort of). This time, the theme is pretend play, and Pinkalicious enjoys a day of make believe with her imaginary friend, Goldilicious the unicorn. That pink-loving little girl, whose story began in the eponymous Pinkalicious, and then continued in Purplicious, returns in this third picture-book devoted to her (rather bratty) adventures.

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