Teachers/Homeschoolers Look! NATE the GREAT Series For Young Readers (10 Bks)

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This auction is for 10 chapter books from the Nate The Great Series for young readers. Hours of fun reading for ages 6 to 10. Illustrated. Nate the Great is a series of more than two dozen children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat . She and illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great , a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan , and Simont illustrated the first twenty books, to 1998. Some numbers were jointly written with Mitchell Sharmat (Marjorie's husband) or Craig Sharmat (her son), and the recent ones have been illustrated by Martha Weston or Jody Wheeler "in the style of Marc Simont" Nate is a detective, a child version of Sherlock Holmes . He solves crimes with his dog, Sludge, introduced in the second case, Nate the Great goes Undercover (1974). Nate finds him in a field eating a stale pancake. (Both Nate and Sludge love pancakes.)Other continuing characters include:Annie—owner of the fierce dog FangOliver—described as a pestRosamond—strange owner of five cats (Super Duper Hex, Super Hex, Big Hex, Plain Hex, and Little Hex)Esmeralda—described as wiseFinley and Pip—occasional adversariesThese books are selling for $4.50 right now in bookstores. Price them and you'll know this is a great deal!My group photo shows the exact books you will receive.The titles read more