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Not Norman: A Goldfish Story (2008)

by Kelly Bennett(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0763627631 (ISBN13: 9780763627638)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: A great story of friendship and of making the wrong judgment of people. This story is of a average little boy that want a pet for his birthday so his parents got him Norman the fish who was not what he was looking for. The young boy starts out dislike Norman not even giving him a chance and constantly ask for another pet, until one day Norman is misplaced and the boy suddenly realize how much he has grow to like and care for Norman.This book would be great to use as an example for writing. The text is full of sentence portraying emotions and feelings. This would be a great tool to show to students that are struggling with making their writing personal and expressing their point of view.
review 2: A story of a boy who's not happy with what he has. Everybody else... more has something better and he wishes he could have what they have. His pet doesn't do tricks or can't be cuddled with. It's just a boring old fish. Over time he learns to love him and see what the good the things are about Norman until ultimately he decides that even if he could he wouldn't trade him for anything, "not Norman". I love this story because it has fun illustrations and shows kids to give things a chance and you just might find out that you had what you needed all along. It is a story of judging a new friend before you give him a chance, and finding out that you cannot judge a book by it's cover. Once he gives Norman a chance he finds out he is a pretty cool fish. less

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