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    Purplicious
    Purplicious
    Purplicious
    Audiobook8 minutes

    Purplicious

    Written by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann

    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney

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    About this audiobook

    In this follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Pinkalicious, a young girl remains true to herself and discovers that pink isn't only a pretty color, but also a powerful one.

    While everyone knows Pinkalicious’s favorite color is pink, the bullies at her new school don’t agree. All the girls are wearing black, painting in black, and making fun of Pinkalicious for loving pink. “Pink is for babies and stinks!” they tell her. Pinkalicious feels left out until she learns that pink can be a powerful color, and that the most important thing is to be yourself.

    Pinkalicious stars in five more picture books—Pinkalicious, Goldilicious, Silverlicious, Emeraldalicious, and Aqualicious—as well as I Can Reads, doodle books, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 9, 2008
    ISBN9780061728792
    Purplicious
    Author

    Victoria Kann

    Victoria Kann is the author-artist of Rubylicious, the New York Times bestseller Peterrific, and four #1 New York Times bestselling books: Aqualicious, Emeraldalicious, Silverlicious, and Goldilicous. She is the artist and coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers Pinkalicious and Purplicious. In addition, Victoria cowrote Pinkalicious: The Musical, which premiered in New York City to sold-out audiences and continues to be performed across the country. Victoria is the co–executive producer of Pinkalicious & Peterrific on PBS Kids. Her award-winning artwork has graced the covers and pages of many magazines, newspapers, and books. She lives with her husband and two daughters. You can follow Pinkalicious on Facebook and Twitter. For more Pinkalicious and Peterrific fun, visit thinkpinkalicious.com.

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    • 5/5
      Pinkalicious is one of my little one's favorite book characters. Today on Hoopla we found the Audiobook to borrow from our library. All opinions are my own. ????? Purplicious by . This Audio book works well as a read along for toddlers while in the car. The narrator uses a child like voice with giggles and sighs in all the right places and keeps my little one laughing. Pinkalicious learns pink is a powerful color and what she likes most even when her friends tease her. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Amazon, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Go Read, Twitter @jason_stacie, and my blog at readsbystacie.com
    • 3/5
      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 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.
    • 3/5
      Cute but NOT a good as PINKALICIOUS!
    • 1/5
      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, 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.
    • 4/5
      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 enjoy or are special about you.
    • 5/5
      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 conclusion. This story is wonderful way to incorporate readers response.
    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 5/5
      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 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
    • 4/5
      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 changes her favorite color. It teaches a good lesson for little girls around the elementary age!
    • 4/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      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 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.
    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 2/5
      The cool kids are all wearing black and pink is for babies. Maybe purple is a good compromise...