The Best Children’s Books About Pink

Too many pink cupcakes turn a delighted girl pink from head to toe — and one more turns the situation red.

A junkyard refrigerator leaves a lazy man one new instruction each day, beginning with “Paint pictures.”

Pink is left out of the rainbow and goes looking for proof that she counts as a color.

When classmates declare pink babyish, Pinkalicious has to decide whether belonging is worth changing her favorite color.

Blobfish, naked mole rats, dolphins, slugs, and other animals make a persuasive case that pink is wilder than it looks.

Pink is for bows, baseball uniforms, and everyone else; no color comes with a membership rule.

A young flamingo refuses the shrimp that should turn her pink and discovers that every snack leaves its color behind.

A boy penguin wakes up bright pink, flees the teasing, and learns that sharing a color does not make flamingos his flock.

A rainy-day treasure chest turns one gray room into a parade of pink painters, dragons, astronauts, and dancers.

A cat’s tongue, a sunrise, and a lollipop spring from black-and-white pages in six bright pink pop-ups.

On a planet where absolutely everything is pink, one girl commits the shocking act of asking for another color.

Posey will wear, eat, and play with only pink things — until another color finally catches her eye.

A girl gets her wish for pink clothes, a pink room, and even pink pets — then cannot find anything in the rosy camouflage.