Nate the Great and the Sticky Case

Nate the Great #5

by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Excellent Book

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Chapter Books, Picture Books, 1st Grade, Juvenile

82 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was an American children's writer. She wrote more than 130 books for children and teens and her books have been translated into several languages. They have won awards including Book of the Year by the Library of Congress or have become selections by the Literary Guild.
Perhaps Sharmat's most popular work features the child detective Nate the Great. He was inspired by and named after her father, who lived to see the first Nate book published. One story, Nate the Great Goes Undercover, was adapted as a made-for-TV movie that won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. Sharmat's husband Mitchell Sharmat expanded Nate's storyline by creating Olivia Sharp, his cousin and fellow detective. Husband and wife wrote four Olivia Sharp books published 1989 to 1991. During the 1990s, their son Craig Sharmat (then in his thirties) wrote three Nate books with his mother. In the late 2010s, their other son Andrew Sharmat co-wrote the last two Nate books written while Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was alive. With Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's passing in 2019 Andrew has continued writing the series with Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot (2021).
In the mid-1980s Sharmat wrote three books published in 1984 and 1985 under the pseudonym Wendy Andrews.
Sharmat also wrote the Sorority Sisters series, eight short novels published in 1986 and 1987. They are romantic fiction with a sense of humor. They are set in a California public high school (day school for ages 14 to 18, approximately).

Reviews

[Ms. B · Rating 4 out of 5]

From the Nate the Great series, this one about a missing stamp is cute and entertaining.
With a fair amount of clues and red herrings, can you figure out where the stamp is before Nate does?

[Villain E · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this better than the last couple of books in the series.

Claude, the kid who always loses things, has lost a stamp. Nate goes to investigate. Rosamond has a yard sale selling ridiculous cat-related items. Annie has taught Fang how to "smile". Pip still doesn't say much.

[Yel Baldemor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice flow, good for kids and teens!

[Katt Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nate the Great is on the case again, this time looking for a missing stamp.

As usual I love the voice, the characterization, and the wildly engaging story. Yep, this series is just as great as Nate is.

One question though. Not to sound too much like a parent, but is it really a good idea for a kid to swap his shoes for a pair of slippers at a rummage sale? Sorry, I was picturing some mom freaking out in the background doing the "But where are your SHOES?" thing complete with high pitched frantic gesticulations.

At least I would.

In a way I wish I could have overheard a bit of THAT conversation, you know? Ah well...it's still a great book.

[Casey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love love love love love love love love this book. Seriously. LOVE THIS BOOK. Of all the Nate the Greats (and I do love all of them), this is my favorite one.

The cats, the stamp, the dinosaurs, there is NOTHING but wonderment and joy in this book. Whenever I find it on a shelf, I stop what I'm doing, pull it out, sit down and read it. At 37, this holds as true a statement as when I was 27, 17, or even 7.

Seriously, my favorite NtG story.

[Fernweh_nach_Zamonien · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lesenlernen mit einer lustigen und kniffligen Detektivgeschichte. Perfekt für 2. Klasse: große Fibelschrift, viele farbige Illustrationen und abschließender Rätselteil.

Inhalt:

Nick Nase hat einen neuen Fall: Ein Stegosaurus ist verschwunden.
Ein Stegosaurus? So groß wie der ist, kann ihn doch nicht der Erdboden verschluckt haben?

Doch der Stegosaurus ist gar kein echter Dino, sondern ein Bild auf einer Briefmarke und eben diese ist Nicks Freund Robert abhanden gekommen.

Nick Nase kombiniert und befragt Zeugen wie sein großes Vorbild Sherlock Holmes. Ob es ihm gelingen wird, diesen kniffligen Fall zu lösen?


Altersempfehlung für die Leserabe-Reihe:

für Leseanfänger/Zweitklässler
Die Fibelschrift und der Zeilenabstand sind groß, die Sätze sind kurz und leicht verständlich.

Das Buch ist bei Antolin gelistet, falls weitere Verständnisfragen beantwortet und Lesepunkte gesammelt werden sollen.


Illustrationen:

Das Abenteuer wurde liebevoll und farbenfroh illustriert.
Auf jeder Doppelseite finden sich Zeichnungen, um die Handlung aufzugreifen. Die Gestaltung der Menschen und Tiere - egal ob Hund, Katze oder Dinosaurier - gefällt sehr. Besonders die Gestaltung von Nick Nase mit typischem Detektivhut ist klasse.



Mein Eindruck:

Die Detektivgeschichte ist kurz und übersichtlich gehalten, um Erstleser nicht zu überfordern, und dank Abschnitte (es gibt keine Unterteilung in Kapitel) kann sich der Zweitklässler die Lektüre gut einteilen.

Das Alltagsabenteuer wird mit viel Humor erzählt. Man kann prima mitraten und es gibt Wissenswertes über Dinosaurier zu erfahren. Unterstützung erhält der kleine Hobbydetektiv von seinem niedlichen Hund Schnuffel. Schließlich hat jeder Ermittler einen Assistenten, der ihm hilfreich zur Seite steht. Lustigerweise ist Schnuffel gar nicht so interessiert an Nicks Schnüfflertätigkeit.

Vom Erstleser wurde bemängelt, dass es manchmal nicht spannend genug war.

Zudem fällt das abschließende Leserätsel recht kurz aus. Hier hätten wir uns (auch zwischen den einzelnen Abschnitten) ein paar zusätzliche Fragen gewünscht.

Eine Leseempfehlung für Kriminalgeschichten- und/oder Dinofans!


Fazit:

Ein unterhaltsames und lustiges Detektivabenteuer zum Mitraten mit einem liebenswerten Hobbydetektiv und seinem vierbeinigen Assistenten.

Dank großer Fibelschrift und kurzen, einfachen Sätzen sowie vielen wunderschönen, farbigen Illustrationen perfekt für 2. Klasse.

Das Leserätsel am Ende hätte umfangreicher ausfallen dürfen.


...
Rezensiertes Buch: "Leserabe - Nick Nase auf der Saurierspur" aus dem Jahr 2005

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the best markers of a Nate the Great. Cute story, with silly asides (what’s the value of your friend’s cat’s hairs at a yard sale?), methodical thought process, Nate referring to himself in the first person.

Mother Tongue notes: I read this with 2nd and 3rd class students over 2-3 lessons. The pictures are helpful, and allowed me to give comfortable readers full pages of text, and hesitant readers shorter texts. The only detail that really dates the story is the stamp being the kind you have to wet instead of a sticker. An explanation of this, comparing licking envelopes to seal them was helpful. Bringing envelopes to class would be more helpful, since some students haven’t sealed an envelope either!

[Michael Guillot · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think what I loved about Nate as a kid was his independence. He walked to his friends' houses. He made himself and his dog pancakes. He walked to the museum. He wrote his mom notes and then he would just bounce. The 70s were different for a kid I guess.

Amazing observation: Rosamond is selling pictures of milk?? at her yard sale, and one of the pictures is of a woman lying in a bathtub full of milk (amazing) and her titties are out! In a children's book! And later! When Nate returns to the yard sale? That was the one picture that had sold! Oh my god! Marc Simont was really on some shit back then! I'm obsessed.

[nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes the things we love the most get lost and come back in a condition less loved. But it is the pursuit after it that builds the love back, braided into that very lost object. Love exists outside of the object, through the winding paths (emotional or spiritual) that take us back.

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[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won't lie. As an adult, this book sucks to read.

If your kiddo reads at a 1-2 grade level, this is a great book for them to read to you/to themselves. The sentences are very short and seem well suited to practice reading.

The story is a cute little pre-Encyclopedia Brown sort of thing with a missing stamp and some easy deduction. I'll check out the others in the series.

[Allison Tubaugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Genre: mystery
Grades: k-2

Nate the Great and the Sticky Case by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is a fun and easy read and it can be helpful when working on predictions and descriptions. Nate’s friend Claude shows up at Nate’s door because he lost his dinosaur on a stamp so Nate agrees to help him find this missing dinosaur. Do the boys find this stamp? You’ll have to read to find out.

[MaKenna Lantz · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read Nate the Great and the Sticky Case by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Nate´s friend Claude asks for help finding his stegosaurus stamp. Nate found them on the bottom of Pip´s wet shoes. This story is fiction and a mystery. I rate it a 2 because I didn´t understand it very well. I would recommend this book to someone who likes mysteries.

[Lea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one wasn’t how I remembered it - I remember Nate in a museum with dinosaur bones. But it’s a fun mystery about a Dino stamp. The answer is obvious but the hunt is fun. Would recommend this for younger kids (book says 6-9).

[Mary T · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this side-by-side with my 7-year-old. I like how the sentences are broken up into phrases. We took turns each reading a page. The mystery itself wasn't as compelling as some of the others I've read in the series.

[Kimberly Greenwell]

Rating 2024: 4/5 - I remember reading these books in Elementary school. So, I just had to pick it up from the library and read it again. Nate is on a sticky case. Searching for a dinosaur stamp for his friend.

[Dakshayani]

They are making fool of the people. i just thought by getting logined in to web site i will be able to read this book for free. but it is useless. very dissapoint from this website... never recommend any one.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I do like this series. They're not amazing, but it's great that the reader has a fair chance to solve the mystery, or at least come close by figuring out the key information. My edition has pretty decent extra information and activities in the back.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book because I like stickers. I also enjoyed this book because I liked the part when Nate the Great found the Stegasaurus sticker.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great fun. Highly recommend for new readers. Good info on dinosaurs in the back of this book and some activities.

[Kristine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The kids are enjoying the Nate the Great. I don’t think any of my kids have ever seen a stamp that wasn’t self-sticking. I even thought it was a missing rubber stamp for quite a while.

[Stephanie Sheaffer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun chapter book series with simple text and corresponding illustrations on almost every page. Published in 1978, this is book #5 in the series. Ages 5-9.

[WinterBat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty simple case but the process is cute

[Chloe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I knew someone stepped on it. Lol.
I am starting to like Rosamond, Annie and Fang.
The humor on these books makes me giggle. Smart!

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 3 & almost 5 year olds love hearing Nate the Great.

[Chris Hays · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is great, but will probably not last for the current era. My son was curious what a stamp was.... ;-)

[Jennifer Wadman · Rating 1 out of 5]

OK mystery for beginning readers - but stegosaurus only had one brain - and that was one tough stamp - and one weird yard sale.

[Sam Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun early reader chapter book series to introduce “mysteries” to kids! My boys 7 and 5 LOVE these!

[Smars · Rating 4 out of 5]

not really any twists in this one that make these books more exciting, but the humor is still spot on for me.

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like these books. The mystery elements are perfect for kids, and are ones that clues can actually lead to the outcome! ... Don't step in those puddles!