Norma No Friends

by Paula Metcalf

Norma No Friends is very shy about her middle name and because of her timidness, she has no friends, but when she runs away to the top of a faraway hill, she hears a sobbing that changes her life completely.

40 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1999

About the author

Paula Metcalf has written and illustrated many children’s books, and she’s been doing so for a very long time. (Her parents still own an early original illustrated poem, the short but pithy "Pin in Tin," penned at age four.) She went on to study illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in England, where she is currently a visiting lecturer in the master’s program in children’s book illustration. Paula Metcalf lives in Cambridge, England.

Reviews

[Cassidy Wheeler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Norma No Friends is a cute book about a little girl named Norma. Norma is shy about her middle name (which happens to be No.) She is sad because she doesn't have any friends, and spends her birthday alone. One day she goes to the top of the hill faraway from her house and her school, and she sits. She hears the cry of another girl; who's name is Nelly No Friends. They bond instantly. They go on to change their middle names and become best friends.
Best suited for k-4. Great story about finding people who accept you and have similar problems as you.