Silverlicious

Silverlicious

By Victoria Kann

This book is on the NY Times Bestseller’s List, July 2011.

Pinkalicious loses a tooth, but unfortunately it seems to be her sweet tooth. She lost it when she grabbed her brother Peter’s chocolate cookie and stole a bite of it, and then everything she eats loses its sweetness and tastes awful to her.

She puts the tooth under her pillow with a note to the tooth fairy that it was her sweet tooth and could the tooth fairy please send her something sweet to eat until the new tooth grows in. But her regular tooth fairy, Tootheetina isn’t available, so she sends substitutes: Cupid, who leaves her candy hearts; the Easter bunny, who leaves jelly beans; and elf #351, who leaves her candy canes.

None of the candy tastes sweet, and each night Pinkalicious leaves a note requesting the substitutes to ask Tootheetina to come back. Finally, Tootheetina herself leaves a note and three silver coins for Pinkalicious.

The note reveals the truth about Pinkalicious’s sweet tooth: that it really doesn’t exist. Tootheetina writes that when someone acts sweet, then everything else will automatically be sweet to that person.

Pinkalicious realizes that when she grabbed her brother’s cookie, she was not acting sweet, and that is why nothing after that tasted sweet to her. She mends her ways and determines to always be as sweet as her sweet tooth.

So she shares the silver coins, which turn out to be chocolate wrapped in silver foil, with her brother and declares them to be silverlicious.

The illustrations in this book are definitely of the pinkalicious variety, both lavishly sweet and very pink. The simplicity of the art belies the complexity of the concepts being illustrated by the drawings. This signature style communicates the consistency of the books in the Pinkalicious series by this author/artist as stories little girls will love.

Kann, V. (2011). Silverlicious. New York: HarperCollins.