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Nate the Great is a series of 31 children's detective stories written by Marjorie W. Sharmat and featuring the boy detective Nate the Great. Sharmat and the illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great , a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan .
Nate the Great and the Lost List, 1975; Nate the Great and the Phony Clue, 1977; Nate the Great and the Sticky Case, 1978; Nate the Great and the Missing Key, 1981; Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail, 1983; Nate the Great and the Fishy Prize, 1985; Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed, 1986; Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag, 1987
Sharmat is the son of Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, a prolific children's writer who is best known for Nate the Great, the boy detective featured in a long-running series of picture books (1972 to present). His father Mitchell Sharmat created Nate's cousin, the girl detective Olivia Sharp, who debuted in 1989.
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great; Margery Sharp – Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (seventh in The Rescuers series of nine books) Alfred Slote – The Biggest Victory; Robert Kimmel Smith – Chocolate Fever; Eve Titus – Why the Wind God Wept; P. L. Travers – Friend Monkey; Judith Viorst – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No ...
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport (ISBN 0-689-71383-5) is a 1980 children's book by Marjorie Sharmat, and illustrated by Byron Barton. It was published by Simon and Schuster. [ 1 ] This book was featured on episode 8 of the children's show Reading Rainbow .
November 12 – Marjorie W. Sharmat, American children's writer (died 2019) [63] November 20 – Dolf Verroen, Dutch writer of children's literature; November 28 – Bano Qudsia, Punjab-born Pakistani fiction writer (died 2017) [64] December 3. Karin Bang, Norwegian novelist and poet (died 2017) [65]
Marc Simont (November 23, 1915 – July 13, 2013) was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books.Inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, he began drawing at an early age.
Sorority Sisters is an eight-title novel series written by Marjorie W. Sharmat between 1986 and 1987 and published by Laurel Leaf Press. This series focused on two different sororities in a fictional high school in Arizona. Palm Canyon may be located somewhere around Tucson because some characters imported dates from that area.