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Izzy's sister Rose loves pink. In fact, she's planned an all-pink birthday party, where the guests will wear fairy wings and tutus.
Not Izzy! She's puzzled by pink, and she's planned her own party in the attic. Her guests will be ghosts and spiders and monster dolls.
But when Rose crashes the party and decides to prove that her magic wand really works, a surprise guest joins the fun!
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-2-Everyone at Rose's fairy-themed birthday party will be wearing pink wings, including the one boy who was invited. Magic wands are to be used in the games and pink cupcakes will be served. Rose wants her sister to come, but Izzy, who dresses all in black, decides she'd have more fun up in the attic surrounded by non-pink things like spiders and her invisible friend, V. Rose and Izzy are opposites when it comes to what they like and dislike but they each have a strong sense of self. The sisters' individual gatherings combine into one big party after they inadvertently make a dragon appear, and it's here that readers will see the girls celebrating and accepting their differences. The watercolor artwork captures the contrast between the siblings well and adds humorous touches not found in the text.-Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Izzy is a budding goth who looks like a milder version of Charles Addams's Wednesday and who believes "No party would be complete without a spider or two creepy-crawling all over the table and spinning webs in the teacups." Her sister, Rose, is a girly-girl who's "really, really into fairies and princesses and everything pink"; Rose insists every guest to her birthday party wear wings and a tutu (the sole boy guest gets a tutu exemption). Rapprochement seems out of the question-until the girls inadvertently join forces to create a magical creature that embodies both their aesthetics. Hardy, making her debut, packs her story with incident, which only underscores the book's many problems: its lack of pacing, its overreliance on humorless bickering as dialogue, and, most problematic, its lead characters, who are little more than a collection of tics. It's visually weak as well-while Hardy attempts some relatively ambitious framings for her watercolors, her characterizations feel like little more than fleshed out doodles or marginalia. Ages 3-5. Agent: Joanna Volpe, Nancy Coffey Literary. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
When her sister has an all-pink birthday party, Izzy, who recalls Wednesday Addams, escapes to the attic for a party with her "spooky and kooky and definitely not pink" friends. For a book featuring a party, sparring siblings, and a dragon, the story is unexpectedly slow. The illustrations, which are a showdown between pink and black, look like early drafts. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
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