Book recommendation: Nate the Great

Buy it: Nate the Great

Nate the Great (By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)  - This is the first book in the “Nate the Great” series of detective stories, of which we have now read several. Nate is a young boy who loves eating pancakes and solving mysteries. “Nate the Great” is a wonderful first chapter book for beginning readers, because the text and stories are simple and often funny; there are fun illustrations on every page and the chapters are short. In this first book, Nate is helping his friend Annie find her missing picture. Nate and Annie search Annie’s room, dig up the backyard and have a snack of pancakes, before Nate finally solves the mystery. My daughter Ally, age 6, loves reading the “Nate the Great” books and trying to solves the mysteries before Nate does. But even after we know the ending, she still loves to read them again and again.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 6, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!