Norma Snows
by Paula Metcalf

Release Date: 1st Aug 2008
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 978 0 2305 3177 2
RRP: Ł5.99

An ego trip for Norma Snows and nothing more...

Norma Snows was a miraculous baby anteater, she was the first to learn to crawl and she could use her long nose to help balance herself when she was snuggling onto mum... even as she gets older, there seems to be nothing that Norma can't do bigger and better than the other children all because of her enormous nose (the name will go down as well as the bone eating champion, Nora Bone, and the naughty school cat, Cheetah Maths). Is there nothing that can confound this little anteater?

There's nothing particularly wrong with having and big nose, but then, there's nothing particularly right with it either. Norma Snows celebrates big-nosed people and creatures in a way that has never been done before - and perhaps there's a reason for that. Overcompensation and bragging rarely helps you make friends and yet this doesn't seem to affect Norma like it would a normal child - regardless of species. What I'm trying to say is that Norma Snows is a little, well... trying. It's haughty, indignant and not at all humorous - perhaps I missed a funny part in the story, but I don't think so. It was just irritating.

There is nothing to really grab a child's interest here. No child wants to hear about how great another child is. No one wants to have an endless list of how talented and wonderful someone else is. We'd all love to hear about how wonderful, talented and great WE are - but there's no room for that sort of nonsense in this story that is not so much about an enormous nose as an enormous ego. Maybe if someone shaved a few inches of that snoz we'd all be back on an even keel...

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