These days, Fiona loves playing video games. We play Chibi-Robo, Super Mario Sunshine and Animal Crossing on the GameCube. And we play Kingdom for Keflings and Viva Pinata on the XBox 360. But the game she loves above all others is Pikmin 2.
Pikmin are tiny sprites that inhabit a world like ours. Two tiny spacemen land on the planet and the Pikmin help them find treasure. They find bottle caps, strawberries, lip gloss and other trinkets then bring them back to the spaceship. There are monsters to battle: creatures that look like lumbering ladybugs, bird-headed snakes or hungry grubs. There are five different color Pikmin and each has their own special strength. Red Pikmin are immune to fire, yellow are immune to electricity and are light-weight, blue are immune to water, purple are as strong as 10 other Pikmin and are heavy, and white Pikmin are immune to poison.
Fiona loves to pretend to be different color Pikmin and have adventures. She draws Pikmin every day and she writes stories about them. Every night at bedtime, she asks for a Pikmin story. She has made up several new species of Pikmin that she includes in her activities. Brown Pikmin can dig in the earth, orange can fly, green ones stretch, pink ones can turn into any other color Pikmin, and there are invisible Pikmin. There are also metal Pikmin, ice Pikmin and potato Pikmin.

Some of Fiona’s Pikmin story books.