Reading Review

At school in literacy time I am working on writing a review(along with some other people) on a picture book. Here is my first one:

Norman and Brenda

By Colin Thompson and Amy Lissiat

When I first looked at the cover the first thing I noticed were how dirty they were. At the top of the book it said ‘The anti-heroes,anti-heroes’. My interpretation of this was they both accidentally became heroes.

When we looked at the title page there was a picture of them both holding hands and Norman wearing a wedding veil! So then I thought that they were going to get married.

The first pages were of how depressing there lives were and how they always felt like they were left behind and there lives hadn’t started yet. They went through stages where they had animals or went on blind dates. I was waiting for the time were they would meet and like each other.

The author was very good at writing funny and clever sentences. The pictures were kind of cartoons and a bit odd,but when you looked closely you could see little clues that could generate a lot of discussion. Finally Brenda climbed up a ladder to see if the world looked better from above and fell on Norman. They ended up getting married,but at the end of the book the author wrote this:

It goes to show that even if you spend a lot of your life washing up at parties or talking to goldfish,somewhere in the world there is someone just for you.

You simply have to be in the right place at the right time.

For me this was my favourite part because it summed up the story and gave it a moral.

To sum this book up I would say it is a great read for someone who takes there time to read and think about what the author is saying. I really enjoyed how clever the author was with the sentences,making it engaging and funny. At the end of the book It had a sentence saying "The Normans and Brenda's never start wars". After a lot of discussion we couldn't come up with a good reason. Your just gonna have to read it and interpret it yourself.