Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-Pinky's brother is worried about starting first grade so she uses her big imagination to think up a wacky story to help him feel better. In it, Pinky is nervous about picture day. She gets even more nervous when she wakes up with crazy hair. After battling unsuccessfully with it, she goes to school and finds that all the other kids are having a bad hair day, too. When the class finally decides to "get over it," the result is the craziest school picture ever. This book is full of kid-pleasing fun. Readers are invited to choose the best response from silly multiple-choice questions. Side comments, including the definition and pronunciation of difficult words, appear in conversation bubbles. The cartoonlike, mixed-media illustrations are as fresh as the text. Kids will enjoy the broccoli- and star-shaped hairdos and the busy layout. This book is as cool as its name and will be a hit in any beginning-reader collection.-Donna Cardon, Provo City Library, UT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
A girl named Pinky makes up imaginative stories to help her younger brother cope with his problems. In School, everyone in Pinky's class has bad hair on picture day. In Shrinky, the new girl at school turns out to be a bully. The illustrations, in which cartoony art is set against color-photo backdrops, are as assaultive as the writing. [Review covers these Step into Reading titles: Pinky Dinky Doo: Back to School Is Cool! and Pinky Dinky Doo: Shrinky Pinky!] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
The irrepressible young storyteller introduced in Pinky Dinky Doo: Where Are My Shoes? (2004) returns with another wildly improbably yarn, this one featuring a truly epic Bad Hair Day. Finding her little brother Tyler cowering under a pile of laundry, Pinky charges him up for his first day of first grade with an account of how she, her friends Nicholas Biscuit and Daffinee Toilette, and even her teacher Ms. Mazanga and Principal Dipthong [sic] found a way to make the best of things one Class Picture Day despite 'dos that ranged from cat-fight tangled to downright quadrilateral. As before, Jinkins slips in some painless pedagogy--mostly such useful new vocabulary as "apprehensive" and "mph"--and illustrates this schoolroom saga with childlike cartoons mixed with or superimposed on color photos. Will this outing too have young readers rolling in the aisles? As Pinky would (does) say, "Yesserooni Positooni!" (Easy reader. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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