Bookwitch

I adore the colour purple, so I hope it’s really mauve that Mary Hoffman rants against in yesterday’s Guardian. But, she’s quite right in that anything intended for little girls is pink or purple (mauve!) and possibly also covered in silver glitter. I was surprised earlier when I read her new book Princess Grace to find that the book had a princess theme. But all has been explained. Mary was wanting to lure the traditional lover of pink to read her book and then get a new message by reading it.

Mary’s heroine Grace starts looking at what princesses do and she comes up with quite a few good role models in the end. The book has a satisfyingly pc conclusion.

I had to laugh when reading about Mary’s daughter Rhiannon’s wish, aged seven, to dye her hair blonde. I think that’s something a lot of us dark haired girls want at some point or other. What I found odd, was to have a daughter who’s blonde, wanting to dye her hair dark… To look like the rest of the family. There’s no pleasing some people.