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

[megan29.livejournal.com]

Ha, I have such a schizophrenic position on this "issue"! My natural taste is to dislike this color. But vendors' propensity of making pink THE girly color pushed my dislike all the way to abhor. I've shocked a real estate agent once, when she showed us a house with a very pink little girl's bedroom. She thought it would be a strong selling point. I disabused her mighty fast. And I hope you won't take this personally, Ros, since the reverse is also true: you would really dislike my color scheme, and I don't hold that against you. *g*

That being said, pink is the color I look best in. So while in general I can't stand seeing it around me, when it comes to clothes, I dress almost exclusively in pink and its relatives. I mitigate this in my mind by the very reasonable argument that I don't see the colors I wear. *g*

As for pink books, they look ridiculous in the bookstore, but when I read one, I never notice the cover. I'm not sure if I would buy one, though.