Pink is for girls

[girlyswot]

So, I like pink. You may have noticed. I always have, though for a while I pretended I didn't because it wasn't cool.

Anyway, despite my predilection for the colour, I do not believe that absolutely everything must always be produced in pink. Least of all, books. So although I very much approved of most of Jacqueline Wilson's choices of top children's books, I was somewhat shocked by the amount of pink and sparkly.

My editions of her choices are:

Ballet Shoes: paperback, sort of beige, I think
A Little Princess: paperback, nasty mustard yellow and black
Little Women: hardback, red
The Railway Children: paperback, orange with photo on the front
The Family from One End Street: salmon pink (this one looks quite similar to the current edition)
What Katy Did: hardback, red
Mary Poppins: hardback, green

Many of these were passed down from my mother. None were chosen by me in a bookshop, as far as I remember. All were (and still are) very much loved. I recently lent my copy of Mary Poppins to a friend who is seven and just starting to enjoy reading 'proper' books. She didn't seem to mind that it wasn't pink either. Because, after all, it's what's inside that counts.

Comments

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's true. Though I will admit to being the kind of person who generally cares more about how things look than how they function. When I got my first car, I was so excited that it was navy blue because that meant it would go with everything in my wardrobe.

[white_hart]

My first car was terracotta with turquoise waves down the sides, but mostly what I cared about was that it had four wheels and an engine and actually moved ;-)

I agree that, where possible, things should be beautiful as well as functional, though, just that there are a lot more ways to be beautiful (and I am now reminded of William Morris's 'Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful' and thinking how fabulous a Strawberry Thief laptop would be).

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes. I want a Morris laptop too, please!