- Comedy
- Graphic Novels
- Ages 5–8
The shape of it
The shape of this universe.
Norma and Belly is Mika Song's warm, madcap comic collection about two scrappy city squirrels forever scheming to get their paws on human snacks. Across the books, Norma, Belly and their friends Gramps and Little Bee mount increasingly ridiculous incognito capers — raiding a donut truck, rescuing Gramps from an apple-processing plant, breaking into a robot pizza automat and cracking a fortune-cookie factory. Told in short, punchy comic panels and loose, expressive ink-and-watercolour art, the series keeps the reading load feather-light and the physical comedy front and centre, making it a perfect first graphic novel. The peril is always cartoonish, the friendship always real, and the whole thing is exactly the kind of gentle nonsense that turns early readers into confident, laughing ones.
Mika Song's madcap squirrel-caper comics — light-as-a-feather, laugh-out-loud graphic novels that make a perfect first comic for newly independent readers.
The series
One way in.
Cultural footprint
A shelf of evidence.
What Norma and Belly has done
- Major award winner
Cultural ubiquity
2/ 5A working classic for readers in the know.
Sensitivity
Low, and collection-wide.
Across the collection
All 4 books.
About the creator