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Pinkalicious
Pinkalicious: Puptastic!
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A fun Pinkalicious I Can Read story about puppy sitting from New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious is expecting to have a pinkatastic weekend puppy sitting. She’s sure she’ll have all kinds of fun with Pinky, the visiting poodle, until she realizes that Pinky is shy and doesn’t want to play. But if anyone can convince the puppy to have fun, it’s Pinkalicious!
Pinkalicious: Puptastic! is a Level One I Can Read adventure and is carefully crafted using short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts for children eager to read on their own.
A fun Pinkalicious I Can Read story about puppy sitting from New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious is expecting to have a pinkatastic weekend puppy sitting. She’s sure she’ll have all kinds of fun with Pinky, the visiting poodle, until she realizes that Pinky is shy and doesn’t want to play. But if anyone can convince the puppy to have fun, it’s Pinkalicious!
Pinkalicious: Puptastic! is a Level One I Can Read adventure and is carefully crafted using short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts for children eager to read on their own.
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First published April 30, 2013
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Victoria Kann
145 books228 followersVictoria Kann is the award-winning illustrator and author of the picture book series featuring the whimsical and effervescent character Pinkalicious. Victoria coauthored and illustrated the first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious. In addition, she cowrote Pinkalicious: The Musical and wrote and illustrated the #1 New York Times bestsellers Goldilicious and Silverlicious. Currently she is working on several more books about the adventures and antics of Pinkalicious. You can visit her online at www.thinkpinkalicious.com.
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December 7, 2021
Julianna picked this at school library. We both enjoyed it. Julianna liked that Pinky the dog turned pink and she had fun babysitting the puppy.
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February 25, 2017
hmmm...not sure I'd recommend this to all kids. she dyes the neighbor dogs hair pink and that isn't addressed. I'm glad the neighbors are nice, but really? I did like where she had to work to gain the dogs trust.
June 4, 2021
All the Pinkalicious books are a great read. This is one of my particular favorites however. In this book Pinkalicious dyes her dog's fur pink while laughing. This is an extraordinary way to shed light on animal cruelty. Her parents accepting this behavior from her is a good demonstration on how spoiling your children will lead to harm. Especially with the fact that this is not even Pinkalicious' dog, but her neighbors, who had gone away for vacation at the time. Her neighbor trusted Pinkalicious to take care of her dog because she was not able to bring it with her for vacation, and Pinkalicious betrayed that trust.
November 17, 2017
This is a fun book for anyone who loves the color pink. The student I read this book with realized that everything in the book was pink! Including the girls name, Pinkalicious, and the dog's name, Pinky. Pinkalicious has to dog sit Pinky and ends up finding that Pinky is afraid of everything. She finds out that Pinky loves baths, but accidentally turns Pinkey pink in the bath. She has to take responsibility and admit her mistake, which could teach students an important lesson about admitting mistakes and being honest.
June 23, 2017
Hope loves pinkalicious and she loves dogs and pink is for girls and the dog turns pink. It is wonderful and silly. Hope. 😤😤😲😑😤😑😑😲😲😲😑🐮🐦🐤🐷🙉🙉🐹🐷🐦🥝🍠🍠🍓🥒🍠🌰🍈🥒🐹🇧🇭🇧🇭🌰🥕🥕🥝🥕🍞🍓🥒🍆🍊🥝🥊
February 20, 2018
“I wish I had a dog with a pink nose! This is great. Can we put our dog in a pink bubble bath?” - V, age 4
June 20, 2018
Accidents can happen anytime, anyplace especially when there is a puppy around.
May 27, 2019
She chose this book herself and loved the story.
November 18, 2019
Kinder and 2nd grade girls are my SMART readers in 2019-20; I think it's going to be a lot of Pinkalicious … and Fancy Nancy.
January 5, 2020
The pinkalicious series of books is a favorite with my nieces!
October 22, 2020
These are cute and colorful stories for beginning readers. Israel enjoys them and can read most of the words. Pinkalicious is a kind, curious and colorful character that kids relate to.
January 19, 2021
Although I am not a fan of pinkalicious, my seven-year-old is. She liked this enough to have me read it two times in a row.
March 7, 2021
You see on the cover that the puppy is pink!
July 28, 2025
Cute story. Love the pink dog.
April 20, 2026
Nixie's pick from library day at school.
The messaging was a bit vague.
The messaging was a bit vague.
March 3, 2017
This was a great early reader, my daughter (a first-grade reader) was able to make it through most of the book with very little input from me.
February 25, 2017
I didn't like it.
May 13, 2013
I absolutely love the "Pinkalicious" series. So, finding a new one is wonderful.
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In "Puptastic!", Pinkalicious's family is dogsitting. That's right, the neighbors have her family to dogsit their dog while they are on vacation.
The dog's name is Pinky, so Pinkalicious assumes she will Pink. So, when Pinky turns out to be a white poodle, Pinkalicious is more than a little disappointed. And, then, when Pinky won't play with her or accept treats from her, that small disappoint becomes almost like a depression of sorts. But, Pinkalicious is not about to give up, either.
So, Pinkalicious starts thinking like Pinky, and she takes Pinky to the bathroom for a bath. Baths with lots of suds always cheer Pinkalicious up. And, since Pinky jumps in the bathtub, almost immediately, it seems that they cheer Pinky up as well. But, that's when it happens!! Pinkalicious knocks off her mother's bottle of Pink. The Pink falls into the tub with Pinky, and Pink comes out matching her name! That's right....Pinky is now PINK. And, the PINK Pinky is Pinkalicious's best friend!
The neighbors come to pick Pinky up in a few days, and are a little surprised at her being PINK. Pinkalicious hands them a green bar of soap to wash her with, and kinda apologizes. They assure her that Pinky loves her now.
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This was an absolutely adorable story.
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In "Puptastic!", Pinkalicious's family is dogsitting. That's right, the neighbors have her family to dogsit their dog while they are on vacation.
The dog's name is Pinky, so Pinkalicious assumes she will Pink. So, when Pinky turns out to be a white poodle, Pinkalicious is more than a little disappointed. And, then, when Pinky won't play with her or accept treats from her, that small disappoint becomes almost like a depression of sorts. But, Pinkalicious is not about to give up, either.
So, Pinkalicious starts thinking like Pinky, and she takes Pinky to the bathroom for a bath. Baths with lots of suds always cheer Pinkalicious up. And, since Pinky jumps in the bathtub, almost immediately, it seems that they cheer Pinky up as well. But, that's when it happens!! Pinkalicious knocks off her mother's bottle of Pink. The Pink falls into the tub with Pinky, and Pink comes out matching her name! That's right....Pinky is now PINK. And, the PINK Pinky is Pinkalicious's best friend!
The neighbors come to pick Pinky up in a few days, and are a little surprised at her being PINK. Pinkalicious hands them a green bar of soap to wash her with, and kinda apologizes. They assure her that Pinky loves her now.
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This was an absolutely adorable story.
May 11, 2013
Pinkalicious dogsits for a neighbor. At first, the dog is scared of her, but when Pinkalicious tries to put herself in a dog's paws she finds a way to connect with the pooch. After a fancu bubble bath the dog's fur is pink and Pinkalicious couldn't be more excited.
I appreciated how Pinkalicious approached a dog's perspective in order to connect with the animal. I was hoping that Pinkalicious would get her own dog, but this was a good read nonetheless. Recommended for girls grades 1-3.
I appreciated how Pinkalicious approached a dog's perspective in order to connect with the animal. I was hoping that Pinkalicious would get her own dog, but this was a good read nonetheless. Recommended for girls grades 1-3.
March 19, 2014
In this story Pinkalicious wants to play with a dog (poodle) that comes to visit. Although the dog is shy Pinkalicious does her best to get the dog to have a fun time.
I like the I Can Read books, because they are leveled and the students can easily read them with little to no help, and help build their confidence.
Questions- How would get the puppy to stop being shy?
Do you ever feel shy or scared?
I like the I Can Read books, because they are leveled and the students can easily read them with little to no help, and help build their confidence.
Questions- How would get the puppy to stop being shy?
Do you ever feel shy or scared?
December 15, 2016
As a disclaimer, I should say I'm not a fan of Pinkalicious. My daughter loves her and really anything pink. I'd like to think what I think isn't influenced by my dislike of Pinkalicious, but it could. Puptasic is a I Can Read book - Level 1. It says this should be simple sentences. I don't know that I agree with that for this book. My daughter did enjoy the story and thought it was fun. The pictures are great and you can use the picture to develop the story.
June 17, 2013
Recommended Ages: grades 1 - 2 (I Can Read Level 1)
Pinkalicious is expecting to have a pinkatastic weekend puppy-sitting. She’s sure she’ll have all kinds of fun with Pinky, the visiting poodle. But Pinky is shy and doesn’t want to play. Pinkalicious gets creative and coaxes the poodle into having a fabulous time.
Pinkalicious is expecting to have a pinkatastic weekend puppy-sitting. She’s sure she’ll have all kinds of fun with Pinky, the visiting poodle. But Pinky is shy and doesn’t want to play. Pinkalicious gets creative and coaxes the poodle into having a fabulous time.
January 29, 2017
My favorite part of this book was when Pinkalicious How beautiful!!!
June 10, 2013
E KANN
September 30, 2014
Jasmine loves all the Pinkalicious books! :)
April 13, 2015
Pinkalicious's family is taking care of some friends dog while they are away and Pinkalicious learns that it can be hard work to take care of a dog and that you have to get the dog to trust you.
August 29, 2016
Adorable as usual. My daughter gives it 5 stars.
February 20, 2025
I love pinkalicious 💕 Jasmine read this one to me and had so much joy! Yeah Pinkalicious! This was pinktastic!
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