Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas

Name: Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
ISBN: 9780739363843

Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Series: Nate the Great #18

Narrator: John Lavelle

Unabridged: 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 04/08/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective, Beginner Readers, Holiday Stories

Synopsis

Spread some Christmas cheer with Nate the Great in this holiday adventure! Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre, perfect for the Common Core. Kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!

Annie's dog is unhappy. When Fang is unhappy, everyone is unhappy. Especially Nate the Great. So Nate agrees to sniff out Fang's mysteriously missing Christmas mail. It's cold and snowy. But Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, will try to solve this holiday case in time for Fang to have a crunchy, munchy Christmas.

Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book!

“They don’t come any cooler than Nate the Great.”
—The Huffington Post

About The Author

Born in Portland, Maine, in 1928, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat dreamed of becoming a writer. Little did she know that she would be the author of more than 70 books for children of all ages. Another of her childhood dreams, that of becoming a detective, has also been realized in her most popular Nate the Great series, begun in 1972.Many of Sharmat's books have been Literary Guild selections and chosen as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress. Several have been made into films for television, including Nate the Great Goes Undercover, winner of the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden has been named one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla

The Nate the Great stories sneak up on you and surprise you. Nate diligently works each case with the supporting cast of his dog Sludge, Annie and her dog Fang, and Rosmund's herd of cats. Can Nate help Fang find the Christmas card his mother sent? With bonus content including facts about snow, reci......more

Goodreads review by nathan

A fun holiday read where we learn that sometimes mysteries in life are joys in the way we need to solve them. There doesn’t always have to be an answer. The fun is in the questioning, the trying.......more

Goodreads review by Christine

Another good book in this series.......more