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Normal Norman Hardcover – Picture Book, March 1 2016

by Tara Lazar (Author), S. britt (Illustrator)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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What is "normal?" That's the question an eager young scientist, narrating her very first book, hopes to answer. Unfortunately, her exceedingly "normal" subject—an orangutan named Norman—turns out to be exceptionally strange. He speaks English, sleeps in a bed, loves his stuffed toy, goes bananas over pizza, and even deep-sea dives! Oh, no: what's a "normal" scientist to do? A humorous look at the wackiness that makes us all special— and a gentle reminder that "normal" can't ever be defined!
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    4 years and up
  2. Print length
    40 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Dimensions
    27.94 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm
  5. Publisher
    Sterling Children's Books
  6. Publication date
    March 1 2016
  7. ISBN-10
    1454913215
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1454913214
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Tara Lazar lives in Basking Ridge, NJ, with her husband, two daughters, and 2,749 stuffed animals. She’s the author of The Monstore, I Thought This Was a Bear Book (both Simon & Schuster), and Little Red Gliding Hood (Random House). Tara founded Picture Book Idea Month (PiBoIdMo), an annual online writing event held on her award-winning blog at taralazar.wordpress.com, which has hundreds of registered users and receives tens of thousands of blog hits.
 
S.britt (AKA Stephan Britt) first developed his zeal for drawing in childhood, when he drew on anything and everything that wasn’t dripping wet. His first picture book, Over In the Hollow (Chronicle), was a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best. Stephan lives in Portland, OR. Visit him online at sbritt.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sterling Children's Books (March 1 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1454913215
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1454913214
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.94 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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Street magic performer. Hog-calling champion. Award-winning ice sculptor. These are all things Tara Lazar has never been. Instead, she writes quirky, humorous picture books where anything is possible!

Tara's book ABSURD WORDS won a 2023 SCBWI Golden Kite in Non-fiction for Older Readers. The Golden Kite is the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' highest peer-selected honor.

7 ATE 9: THE UNTOLD STORY was honored with the 2018 SCBWI Crystal Kite and the Irma S. & James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature from Bank Street College of Education. Her other titles include THE MONSTORE, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BEAR BOOK, LITTLE RED GLIDING HOOD, NORMAL NORMAN, WAY PAST BEDTIME, YOUR FIRST DAY OF CIRCUS SCHOOL, THREE WAYS TO TRAP A LEPRECHAUN, BLOOP, plus THE UPPER CASE and TIME FLIES, sequels to 7 ATE 9.

Tara's next picture book is FLAT CAT, illustrated by NY Times #1 Bestselling illustrator of THE BAD SEED series, Pete Oswald--available for pre-order now (the book, not Pete).

Tara's signature writing style is full of puns, wordplay, and goofy fun that makes both kids and adults giggle together non-stop.

Discover original stories, book reviews and giveaways at her popular blog "Writing for Kids (While Raising Them)": TaraLazar.com.

Tara was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2010. She speaks professionally about overcoming disability to achieve your goals and dreams. Tara teaches writing workshops for SCBWI, Highlights Foundation, and schools across America. She's a former Co-Chair of the prestigious Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature conference and a former picture book mentor for We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) and #PBChat. Tara visits dozens of schools annually to promote reading and writing to students.

Tara holds a BA in English/Writing from Rutgers College. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, and a lucky black cat named Phoebe.

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jeninnl
5.0 out of 5 stars You should get this book for your kid
Reviewed in Canada on August 17, 2016
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Fantastic book teaching kids that 'normal' is whatever you want it to be. My 2.5 yr old girls love the book. Great message and fun to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2016
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This book is awesome! I love the illustrations and the story
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Lynn A. D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny with lots of encouragement to love your differences
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2017
Normal Norman by Tara Lazar is a book about defining the word normal, and in a very funny way.

The narrator of this story is a junior scientist who is narrating for the first time. She wants it to go well, so she introduces Norman. Norman is an orangutan, an average, ordinary, common creature – or so she thinks.

The junior scientist measures him and finds he is normal in size. Then she discovers Norman eating a snack, but he doesn’t eat bananas, he’s eating pizza. When she peels a banana for him he freaks out! He thinks it’s cruel! It gets more and more abnormal from there.

This is a funny story. Children will love that Norman is a purple orangutan who wears eyeglasses, which should have been the first clues to the narrator that Norman is far from being a normal orangutan. Norman also doesn’t want to sleep in a pile of leaves and branches like orangutans do, and he has a favourite stuffed toy.

The junior scientist narrator is distraught. Nothing is going as planned. Then Norman has an idea.

Children will love Tara Lazar‘s ending for Normal Norman. It’s funny and unexpected. The illustrations by S. Britt are fun and fabulous, making Norman a memorable character.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Normal Norman is not normal, or is he?
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021
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The unnamed narrator of this book is a young girl who is assigned to define the word, “Normal.” In order to do this, she has a team of scientists find the most average animal on earth, which turns out to be a purple orangutan.

There is a saying in medicine that the definition of a normal person is someone who hasn’t been tested enough. In other words, if you run enough tests on someone, you are bound to find something out of the so-called normal range. It doesn’t take very long for the junior scientist narrator of this book to start finding things out of the normal range in Norman. In fact, after doing some anatomical measurements, everything she finds out about Norman subsequently is not normal. He doesn’t eat, speak or act like a normal orangutan. Never mind that he doesn’t look like a normal orangutan, as he is clearly purple. What does this say about the dedicated team of scientists who selected Norman because he was found to be the most average animal on earth? Maybe they are not normal scientists either. The narrator should have examined them first.

The moral of the story is that normal is impossible to define (meaning the narrator was given an impossible assignment). Or maybe, that the definition of normal depends on who is defining it. Is this a normal book? You will have to read it and come to your own judgment, but normal or not normal, it is a book I highly recommend you examine for yourself. Just don’t hire their scientists, as I don’t have too much faith in them.
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Annalisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Normal Norman
Reviewed in Italy on August 1, 2016
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splendido libro in lingua inglese che aiuta i bambini, e anche i grandi, a capire che la normalità è relativa, e che praticamente non esiste. belle illustrazioni, ironico e ben fatto
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Mark Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Fab Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2016
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Bought this for my 6-year old daughter, as I saw something about the book when it was released and liked the moral behind it. My daughter asked me to read it every night for almost two months, she loves it!
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Liz
3.0 out of 5 stars Love the ethos of the book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2016
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Love the ethos of the book, drawings are lovely too.

The story is great but very wordy for a children's book and not the best for a natural flow.
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Jujuberry37
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything but Normal
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2016
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Our lively narrator is on her first job, and her mission is to demonstrate Normal, in the form of Norman, a rather adorably dysfunctional, or so the narrator thinks so, Ape. Norman doesn't seem to do anything normal and neither do his friends, which totally exasperates our dear little narrator. Thankfully, she comes to the conclusion that Normal simply can not be quantified. With illustrations that had my 4 year old laughing out loud, we absolutely adored Norman's antics and truly wish that he could come home to play at our house with his motley crew of abnormal friends. Once again Tara Lazar has taken an incredibly poignant concept and written it in an engagingly hilarious way, giving just a touch of enlightenment to the little cherubs who are the target audience. Bonus points for reminding us all, that Normal is truly whatever you choose to make it...
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