This is, hands down, my favorite book from elementary school...but, until last week, when I read it again, I really couldn't tell you why I loved it so much. In fact, I could barely remember anything about it. I decided to refresh my memory and went in active search of this childhood favorite. I searched at Borders, but it was out of print. I guess it wasn't really an active search, because when I couldn't find it at Borders, I gave up...temporarily. Knowing that I had such fond memories of this book and was anxious to read it again, my dear twin sister surprised me with it shortly after I moved to Virginia. I was so excited when I opened the package, I honestly screamed and all of the Wheatleys looked at me like I was nuts!
In The Pink Motel, Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida. When they arrive during their winter vacation, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure. The Mellen family plans to fix things up so that they can sell the motel and be back in Minnesota by the time school starts, but as soon as they arrive at their new motel, the regular winter guests begin to arrive and the adventure begins!
Before reading this book again, the only thing I remembered was that while reading The Pink Motel in the fifth grade, our English teacher Mrs. Newman, (who, as it happens, was from England) taught us about Lady Fingers. One of the characters in the book, Miss Ferry, could always be counted on to have treats and goodies for Kirby and Bitsy; and on one particular day, it was lady fingers that were served. Ever since then, whenever I see lady fingers in the store or being used in some recipe on the Food Network, I always think of The Pink Motel.
I would highly recommend that you pick up a book you remember fondly from your childhood and rediscover why you loved it so much. I was so happy to read The Pink Motel again after so many years, and remember things from our fifth grade English class that we discussed about the book. This will definitely be a book that I read to my children at bedtime!
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I have never even heard of it but now I am going to search for it at the library. I love reading children's books (still). That is so cute of Laur to get it for you.
i can testify that she really did go crazy. i wish my students were that excited about books. :)
I just finished talking about my favorite book of all time to our girls scouts troop since we were talking about things to do to relax and many of the girls said reading was very relaxing and mentioned their favorite book. I said my was "The Pink Motel and I'm going to go home and find it so I can read it again." We were so poor at our house so we couldn't have bought it...I believe someone donated it to the church who gave it to us. There were 8 of us kids growing up and I think we all read it all the time. I wish I would have kept it. I loved it! Lorraine
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