Nate the Great Goes Down in the Dumps

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Nate the Great and his trusty dog, Sludge, have a tricky case to solve! Nate the Great and his trusty dog, Sludge, have a tricky case to solve. Nate's friend Rosamond has started a fortune-telling business, but her money box is missing. Sludge and Nate visit Claude, who helped Rosamond set up her business, and Finley, who collects boxes for his rat. They can't seem to help! It looks like the only way to clean up this case is to get down and dirty in the dumps!

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Praise for the Nate the Great Series

Kids will like Nate the Great. School Library Journal, Starred Review

A consistently entertaining series. Booklist

Loose, humorous chalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into a page-turner. Publishers Weekly

Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years. Kirkus Reviews

They dont come any cooler than Nate the Great. The Huffington Post

Author Bio

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 Nates 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.

Marc Simont won the Caldecott Medal for his artwork in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, as well as a Caldecott Honor for his own book, The Stray Dog. He illustrated the first twenty books in the Nate the Great series.