Rosamond's present slid off of her sled. Nate the Great walked to her house and noticed that there were 6 cartons of milk on the table. Rosamond had only 4 cats and each cat drank a single bottle of milk. What could the other 2 bottles be for? Nate followed the tracks from Rosamond's sled in the snow. This led him to a tree by the tracks. He looked up into the tree and found his present, a cat named Super-Duper Hex. You will enjoy this book if you like Nate the Great. I liked it because it was a tricky mystery to solve.

This is a nice book...it tells you about many of the reasons that trees are nice. The only part I didn't like was the part about burning leaves. Not environmentally cool.

This book is a good book because it teaches kids how important a tree is to the world. It also teaches them how much fun they can be. Young kids will enjoy the pictures while parents enjoy reading the story to them. I strongly suggest reading this book to someone you love.

The best early readers are those that focus on a subject that a child can easily understand, use simple words, and have illustrations that perfectly capture the words. A Tree Is Nice easily passes those tests. The book is a Caldecott medal winner for its illustrations.

The book explores all of the many benefits that trees bring us. They "fill up the sky," and "make everything beautiful." "Even if you have just one tree, it is nice too." The book goes on to describe the beauty of leaves, the fun of playing in them, and even bonfires with them in the fall when they are at their most beautiful. You can climb the tree, lean things up against the tree, enjoy the shade, be protected from winds, use the sticks for drawing in the sand, and hang swings and flower baskets in the branches. Trees make perfect backgrounds for picnics, too.

My favorite part of the book is the section about planting a tree. Ms. Udry points out that you can put a tree in, and watch it grow. Then you can tell others that you planted it, and they will want to plant one, too. I remember planting some trees as a cub scout, and revisiting them as a middle-aged man and taking great delight in seeing them become a large, leafy oasis in what had been a barren field.

The illustrations are terrific. The book's designer has created a vertically elongated page shape that accentuates the graceful trunks of trees. Half of the illustrations are in color (using watercolors with inked outlines and details) and half in black-and-white. The choices for full color are good ones (fall leaves, being next to a house, and with a picnic). The pen and ink ones with grey washes are very poetic in their simplicity. The design also minimizes the words, which appear almost like a memorial plaque at the base of a tree in an arboretum. The style is very reminiscent of the best simple drawings of the fifties, and provide a nostalgic feeling.

In addition to reading this book to your child, and having your chld read this book to you, you each must plant a tree!

Where else does nature provide well for us, where you can help nature along a little? Perhaps you should consider a bird feeder or bird bath (if you have a yard).

Enjoy the natural sculpture and art all around you!

This story is about a boy who lost his beach bag and Nate the Great finds it. It's a detective story and it's also funny. Kids who enjoy detective stories will like this series.

I, Melika the excellent really adore the book Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag. This book is about a boy who solves a mystery of a missing beach bag.In my opinion this is a easy mystery, but you might think differently. I don't admire an easy mystery, but I prefered the rest of the book, and I really recommend this book.

Trying to take a day off and bask at the beach just doesn't work for Nate the Great. As a detective, his detecting services are always on call. This time Oliver, Nate's next door neighbor and the world's greatest pest, has come up with a new mystery. Oliver has lost his beach bag. The beach bag contains Oliver's clothes and shoes, which Oliver will need. Nate signs on for the case at once, and the search begins-with Oliver following closely after, of course. During the course of his investigation, he runs across the usual suspects: Annie and her dog, Fang, and Rosamond, who is running a seaside restaurant.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is the author of over twenty Nate the Great adventures, including NATE THE GREAT STALKS STUPIDWEED, NATE THE GREAT AND THE BORING BEACH BAG, NATE THE GREAT AND THE HALLOWEEN HUNT, and NATE THE GREAT AND THE MUSHY VALENTINE. She has written dozens of books for young readers. She named Nate the Great after her father. Her books have been named as Children's Choice books and Junior Literary Guild selections, and been picked as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress.

NATE THE GREAT AND THE BORING BEACH BAG offers more than the usual high standard of entertainment readers have come to expect from Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Filled with the wit and humor of any other Nate the Great book, this particular entry also involves rudimentary mapping skills and an introduction to logical thinking. Also, long-time fans will really get the humor in Rosamond's Restaurant, where the sandwiches actually come packed with sand! The first-person voice of Nate the Great is an absolute delight to read on its own, but even better to share with a young reader just beginning to discover the worlds and adventures that lie between the covers of a book. Marc Simont's artwork, especially since it is out of the urban locale that the Nate the Great adventures usually favor, is eye-catching and colorful.

Young readers will enjoy the whole Nate the Great series because the tales are told in a familiar fashion and involve a solid cast of characters that return book after book. These books are also some of the best to choose for read-alouds to pre-readers or for the last story before bedtime because they can be read in just a few moments. The Nate the Great mysteries are fun and addictive for both parent and child.

Top Secret is about a boy named Allen Brewster who has to do a science project for Miss Green. Allen wants to do his project on discovering human photosynthesis. He discovers it, but noone believes him. Allen writes to the President for help and then things get Top Secret. I recommend this book because it is funny and crazy .It has plant.

Top Secret is a very interesting yet funny book. The characters are amazingly funny. Have you ever heard of HUMAN PHOTOSYNTHESIS? Well you will now! Read this book and you'll find the best science project. Please read this book. P.S. Say that this is a useful review!

This book is about a child named Allen Brewster that discovered the mystery of HUMAN PHOTOSYNTHESIS.Nobody believed Allen except for grandpop.Ms.Green, Allen's teacher won't let Allen do his science project on HUMAN PHOTOSYNTHESIS.Instead Ms.Green wants Allen to do his science project on lipstick.One day,Allen went to the library to do research on human photosynthesis. The next day, Allen wasn't allowed to go to the library because he was there too long. One day, Allen went to a hotel that was supposed to be in. When he got up to the room, he met the President's advisor, Mr. Kirby. Mr. Kirby told Allen that his discovery was Top Secret. So, Allen had to change back and the President sent Allen the project he was supposed to do. If you want to know what happens next, then you should read the book.

One Saturday a very nice family of four go to the park for a picnic and find a straggly stray pup. They name him Willy and spend the day playing with him. When it's time to pack up and go, the children want to take Willy home with them, but their parents tell them no, Willy probably belongs to someone else and they sadly leave him behind. The next week is excruciatingly long and whole family spends it thinking about Willy. When Saturday comes, they go back to the park on the pretense of another picnic, but are really hoping to find Willy. Just when they think they'll never see him again, he appears, in the dog catcher's net. Happily, the family claims him...Willy's found a new home and they've found a new pet..... Award winner, Marc Simont has written a lovely, gentle, true to life story that will capture your family's heart. His simple and straighforward text is only outdone by his very detailed and expressive artwork. While looking at these illustrations, youngsters will actually feel the joy of finding this little furry friend, sense the sadness of leaving him behind and worry, right along with the family, about his welfare. This is a terrific picture book, perfect for kids aged 3-7, your entire family can share and a wonderful addition to all home libraries.

I bought this book in a paperback version at a book fair. I heard good things about it and I like Marc Simont's illustrations in other books. I picked it up because it is a Caldecott Honor Book. It turns out to be a beautiful story that everyone in the family will enjoy. It is based on a true story but depicted in a way that children can understand the storyline easily. It shows children that fall in love with a stray and the parents tell the kids that the dog must belong to someone else. Eventually, everyone in the family is thinking about the dog and what happened with him. At the end of the week, they return to find the dog running from the dog catcher. I am not sure if children are familiar with dog catchers but it can lead into a discussion. It shows that the family is willing to take on the responsibility of loving a stray. It shows empathy to animals and caring by kids. Children need to learn love animals but to be careful of stray animals. However, children will be moved by this sweet story and cheer for the dog! I definitely recommend it!

My children(ages 6,4,2) and I love this book. It has a lovely little story with a very nice message. Any parent or child who loves animals, especially dogs, will love this story. The illustrations are lovely too. Highly recommended for children aged 2-8.

The story is about a goose who alawys did flips. So one day she got really tired and fell. Then she fell asleep and the next day she went to a farm. When she was there she almost got cooked.I recommend this book for kids who like adventure and like cooked goose! Michael F.

Emily the goose did fancy loops and stunts while flying. Emily's antics got her in trouble when the flock was migrating. The stunts made her too tired to keep up and she landed on a farm with a farmer, his wife, and their flock of domesticated geese. Things go well until Emily notices a goose is missing. Emily searches for the missing goose and finds a pail of goose feathers. Emily's expression reveal horror and fright. Happily Emily is able to escape. The story gets funny during Emily's escape attempts. I like this book because younger children can look at the pictures and understand the story.

I thought that the book, Nate the Great and The Mushy Valentine was a pretty good book to read. It was about a young boy solving two mysteries on Valentines Day. One for his dog and another for his friend. He thought hard to put all his clues together and fingured them both out. I recommand you to read this book if you are looking for a easier book to read and to understand. It was easy to follow along and to know what was going on in the story.
Brandon M.

Nate The Great by Marjorie Sharmat

Ever got a valentine? Is it a mystery? Nate
The Great And The Missing Valentine by Marjorie
Sharmat is good book. I recommend this book
because a boy is trying to find who put the
valentine on his dog's dog house. This book will
bring a mystery to your school.

I read the book Nate The Great Goes Down In The Dumps. This book is a Realistic Fiction book. When I read this book I thought that it was an exelent book, because it had the things that would really happen to a ten year old child like me! It also had alot of details so it was facile to recount to the book,and understand it. This is a Book that I enjoyed and recommend it to anybody within second grade through fith grade.

Nate the Great and The Lost List embodies the ingredients young readers will enjoy...mystery, humor and comic-book like illustrations. In this book, Nate the Great, has his vacation interupted by his friend, Claude, who has lost the grocery list given to him by his father. Nate and his ready companion,Sludge, scour the neighborhood in search of clues.

The exellent book, Nate the Great and the lost list is a fabulous story, especially if you just came to the United State like me. This is a mystery about a boy lost a list . I really recommend this book.

Nate the Great and the Lost List was one of many in the series that we were privileged to share over the course of his childhood. Nate the Great opened the world of reading to both of my sons. Because Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is a master of using specific aggregates of words for each story, both of them began to read without much difficulty as a result of these tremendous stories. Over and over again, this wonderful series of books brought the inner thoughts of children into written form. I came across the series the other day, tucked safely away for any grandchildren that might come along.

Nate the Great is hot on the trail of the lost list in this book which appeals to both boys and girls.

Nates' vacation is interupted when he is asked to locate a missing grocery list. True to form, Nate doggedly pursues clues in his neigborhood and successfully solves this case.

The storyline and comic-book like illustrations assist young readers in following Nate along the trail of the missing list. A great read for young and old alike!

This book is about a Chinese girl named Shirley. She had to move China to Brooklyn New york when she was about ten years old. It was difficult for her to move to America because she was Chinese and didn't speak very good English, and she didn't have that many friends. The book tells about how she comes to love baseball and how her favorite player is Jackie Robinson. At the end of the book she gets to meet Jackie Robinson. This book is ok, but not great. The interesting parts are when it is about baseball. For example, Shirley listens to the radio when it tells about the baseball game. The games she listens to are the Brooklyn Dodgers games and she especially likes hearing about Jackie Robinson. You can learn a lot about Jackie Robinson by reading those parts of the book. When it isn't about baseball the book isn't as interesting. I recommend to people who want to know what Jackie Robinson did. It also tells about what it is like to be a Chinese person in America and that might be interesting for some people to read about.

"In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" is about a Chinese girl named Shirley Temple Wong who moves from China to America by ship to join her father.

When she gets there, she does not like it. She cannot speak English. She is the only 8 year-old and goes into the fifth grade because she thinks she is 10.

Shirley eventually makes friends and learns about baseball. Jackie Robinson is not one of the main characters but he means a lot to Shirley.

She gets beat up a lot by a girl named Mable with surprising results.

It is a good book that I would recommend to people who like real life stories.

This book is about a little girl named Shirley Temple Wong, who lived in China for most of her life with all her relatives. But then she and her mother move to America to live with her father. It is very different for Shirley there and at first people are mean to her. But Shirley makes two good friends and she likes her friends a lot.

Shirley's favorite thing about America is that there is baseball and Shirley falls in love with baseball. ESPECIALLY Jackie Robinson!

I recommend this book to people who like books that are set in an earlier time than now. I also recommend this book to people who like baseball, because this book has a lot of baseball in it.