Wednesday 21 November 2012

The World Of Norm (May Contain Nuts) by Jonathan Meres

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Dork Diaries, and now The World Of Norm. This book by Jonathan Meres has recently been nominated for the Red House Children's Award, alongside Gangsta Granny and Operation Eiffel Tower. The school Book Club have just borrowed six copies of it from West Earlham Library to read over the next few weeks, so I thought I would have a look.

On the first page of the book, Norm is caught trying to use his dad's wardrobe as a toilet, and things go downhill rapidly from there. The family have recently moved house, due to Norm's dad losing his job, and Norm is not coping well with the change. Unfortunately nobody seems to notice, as they are all too worried about Norm's younger brothers.

While performing stunts on his bike, Norm's best friend, Mikey, accidentally breaks a valuable tea set that used to belong to Norm's grandmother. Very generously, Mikey's father gives Norm £100 in order to replace it. However, Norm has a far better plan, and he decides to 'pimp his bike' instead...

This book is funny from the very first line. However, later in the story, Norm becomes quite a sad and lonely figure, being blackmailed by a girl from his street. You almost feel sorry for him, but because he makes such bad decisions, a lot of his problems are self-inflicted. The books is quite long, but is an absolute pleasure to read. Apparently a sequel (The World Of Norm-May Produce Gas) is due very soon!

Mr Biddle

16 comments:

  1. Hey im ethan And im from sunnyside primary school. I have alredy three diary of a wimpy kid books already and they are really funny and intresting this book sounds amazing bye.

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  2. hi im Loganc Im Ive been reading The world of dorm.

    Ive been really enjoing this book because it is similar to Diary of A wimpy kid.

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  3. hi im adam at sunnyside school sounds like a great book

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  4. Hi im Taylor and im from sunnyside this books looks really funny and looks interesting.

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  5. Hiya i am brett and iam from sunnyside primary.I like to read this book because it's similar to diary of a wimpy kid!

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  6. Hello my naame is caitlin.That book looks very intresting and the cover makes me want to read it more and it looks really funny.

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  7. Hi i am aiden. I have enjoied reading this book and it is similar of diary of a wimpy kid book

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  8. Hi I'm cameron from sunnyside primary school and the book looks amazing.

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  9. Hi my name is sammyjo and this book sounds realy intrestin and i with i could read this and i think that i have read some of the diary the wimpy kid

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  10. Hiya im Jake and im from Sunnyside primary. I quite like reading this book because its mostly similar to diary of a wimpy kid.

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  11. Hi my name is Zoe and I go to Sunnyside. I am not a fan of the Wimpy Kids books but this looks interesting.

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  12. Alex Melton (West Earlham Junior School)28 November 2012 at 13:31

    Thanks everyone. This book is very funny

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  13. thank you for looking at are book blog

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  15. hi, i can not reveal my name but im friendly. Well what i think about this book is hilarious and enjoyable but at the same time crazy, but still cool.

    So why don't u have a go at reading this book.And ahh thaks for reading my blog

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