Nate the Great, Where Are You? - Hardcover

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat has written more than 130 books for children and young adults, as well as movie and TV novelizations. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. The award-winning Nate the Great series, haled in Booklist as “groundbreaking,” has resulted in Nate’s real-world appearances in many New York Times crossword puzzles, sporting a milk mustache in magazines and posters, residing on more than 28 million boxes of Cheerios, and touring the country in musical theater. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and her husband, Mitchell Sharmat, have also coauthored many books, including titles in both the Nate the Great and the Olivia Sharp series.
 
Mitchell Sharmat, a graduate of Harvard University, has written numerous picture books, easy readers, and novels, and is a contributor to many textbook reading programs. He is best known for the classic Gregory, the Terrible Eater, a Reading Rainbow Feature Selection and a New York Times Critics’ Pick. In Mitchell Sharmat’s honor, The Sharmat Collection, displaying the books he has written, was established at the Harvard Graduate School of Education by the Munroe C. Gutman Library.

Jody Wheeler developed a greater-than-average interest in children's books at an early eage. having been influenced and encouraged by her great-aunt Opal Wheeler, a prolific writer of books for young readers in the 1950s. Since being trained as a fine artist and educator, Jody has enjoyed working on projects ranging from picture books to educational texts and magazines, and from greeting cards to coloring books. Jody Wheeler divides her time between Manhattan and Siesta Key, Florida.

Longtime detective duo Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, suddenly have more cases than they really want. Who could blame them for avoiding their demanding clients by hanging out in the woods? After their brief escape, they solve mysteries involving a missing turnip, a tube of dog toothpaste, and a beast with four tails. In the end, they sit together happily, “forever Nate the Great and Sludge.” The simply written, rather rambling narrative unfolds in Nate’s distinctive voice. Nicely illustrated in color “in the style of Marc Simont” (the series’ original artist), the story offers the unusual opportunity of hanging out with the boy and his dog as they stop to smell the roses before swinging into action once more. Nate and Sludge will always be at the heart of the Sharmats’ Nate the Great series, a perennial favorite of beginning readers since 1972. Grades K-3. --Carolyn Phelan