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I had never even heard of the Snorks until I stumbled across The Snorks and the Waterwitch in my ongoing hunt for witchy picture-books—a perennial pet project of mine. Apparently there was a Snorks animated television show which ran from 1984 through 1989, and which was based upon comic-book characters and a comic-book created by Belgian comic artist Nic Broca. It was meant to be a competitor to the blockbuster animated hit, The Smurfs, which I have heard of, and which was also originally a Belgian creation. Having been raised without a television in the home, I rarely watched The Smurfs, but I was certainly aware of the show's existence, as many of my friends watched it, and I occasionally saw it at their homes.
In any case, although the television show about the Snorks didn't begin to air until 1984, this slim paperback picture-book was published in 1983, and is based (according to the statement on the colophon) on the Snork movie, Captured (about which I can discover nothing). The story itself is cute enough, and the artwork is colorful and (naturally) cartoon-like. I can certainly see the story here making for a fun tv film or episode, with its good messages about keeping the ocean clean and working hard, and its adventurous tale of an evil-doer who gets her comeuppance. This sort of thing isn't my wheelhouse, but I found it rather appealing, in a kind of nostalgic way. I did wish that there was more of the eponymous witch, but then, apparently she reappears in other episodes.