My 3 year old daughter loves drawing on her magna doodle, we have also had other such toys which have all worked excellently. She also enjoys Barbie and pink so I thought this would be a perfect choice. It didn't turn out so great though. Firstly it broke in about ten seconds, we eventually unscrewed the back and reattached the magnetic strip which had come unstuck. Then I realised that if your left handed the cord which attaches to the pen is too short to draw comfortably. Also the little magnets that sit along the side fall out everytime my daughter carries it by the handle. So those are already history. I would recommend you invest in the old faithful Fisher Price Magna Doodle instead.