Norman Gnormal's parents actually wanted a dog and not a little boy. So they raised little Norman as if he were one. "I had a happy puppyhood," Norman claims. But when he arrives at Watson Elementary School, students tease him, "Fido! Drinks-from-the-toilet! Lassie!" In an effort to help him adjust, Principal Pantaloni enlists Norman in the Werewolf Club. Though not actually a werewolf himself, Norman gains acceptance from his new friends for his ability to run on all fours and his genuine delight in liverwurst milkshakes.

When they learn that their beloved teacher Mr. Talbot is cursed with werewolfdom, the Club must come to his rescue by locating Alexander the Great's Magic Pretzel (the only known cure for werewolves stuck in full-time wolf mode). Through the adventure, the danger, the outrageous fun, the Werewolf Club bonds into an unholy, howling, drooling pack of wolf-like beasts. It can only be said of the little lycanthropes, "It is not your fault, my children! You were born under an unlucky star!"

This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2000 by Simon & Schuster Ltd .

Jules Feiffer is an American cartoonist, author and illustrator. He has won a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in The Village Voice and an Academy Award for his animated short Munro. He illustrated Norton Juster's children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth. In 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame and was guveb a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Writers Guild of America. He lives in New York City. Daniel Pinkwater is the author of several bestselling children's books as well as a popular commentator on National Public Radio. He writes regular reviews on Contentville. com. Daniel lives in Hyde Park, New York. Daniel Pinkwater lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley.