Big Nate All Work and No Play: A Collection of Sundays

Big Nate Graphic Novels #7

by Lincoln Peirce

Big Nate is big news! Big Nate books have sold more than 4.5 million copies and been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year.

Already a New York Times best-seller, it's two firsts in one for a Big Nate book! The first Sundays-only and first full-color Big Nate collection both debut in Big Nate All Work and No Play . Enjoy more than two years of Sunday cartoons, portraying the colorful life of Nate Wright. This spunky eleven-year-old holds the school record for detentions and is in little chance of losing that distinction, but that doesn't stop him from dreaming big!

He's a self-described genius, a sixth-grade renaissance man, and a full-fledged believer in his future as a cartoonist. Equipped with a No. 2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he is No. 1, Nate fights a daily battle against overzealous teachers, undercooked cafeteria food, and all-around conventionality.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Childrens, Comics, Fiction, Young Adult, Humor, Friendship

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2012

About the author

Lincoln Peirce is a cartoon artist from Portland, Maine. He lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. Peirce writes the comic strip "Big Nate". Peirce's comic strip, Big Nate, is featured as an island on the famous children's website, Poptropica. Big Nate appears as the first cartoon on The Maine Sunday Telegram in the comics section.

He studied art at Colby College in Maine were he began cartooning. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before teaching art and coaching basketball at a New York highschool for 3 years. He currently plays hockey with "an old men's league" and describes it as his best sport as a child. In an interview with the Washington Post, Peirce stated that his last name is pronounced "purse" and is not a misspelling of "pierce."

Lincoln Peirce was a member of the "Surviving as a Print Cartoonist" Panel at the Maine Comics Art Festival with fellow cartoonists Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuri (Retail, Gill) and with Mike Lynch moderating. On the panel Lincoln revealed he is currently working with some animation and licensing projects including the addition of a Big Nate island to the online game Poptropica.

Reviews

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very hit-and-miss when it comes to the comic elements, but I admit I came in expecting something with Calvin & Hobbes like humor and this is nothing like that.
I did laugh a couple of times and the art works well with the type of comic strip it tells, so it might just be that it's not my thing.

[Raina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was aware of this franchise well before I read one of the books. Kids in my library were reading them voraciously, at least for a season. And I still get asked for them regularly.
And yeah, I definitely had a bias against them in my head - a copycat of the DOAWK phenom - popular with the kids, but generally eye-rolley.

This is a collection of 3-row full-color Sunday strips. They don't have a steady narrative or anything - they're just slices of Big Nate's life.

Happily, I was surprised at the poignancy of some of these anecdotes.
The one that compelled me to grab a sticky note and mark it was page 96, where Big Nate handles Mother's Day in a single dad household.

This reminds me of Jimmy Gownley's stuff, as far as the depiction of single-parent households goes. I also like the drawing-as-empowerment elements. Good things. So, yeah, I'm fairly won-over.

[Annice22 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love reading all the comic strips. This was really funny. Nate just can't seem to stay out of trouble either at school or at home.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recently scrounged up my copy of this and gave it a read, still funny and enjoyable! It’s like middle school humor, but I have simple tastes. I need to find my other Big Nate books and give them a reread

[Danny Figenshu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

Good, good, good, goooooood, h g d s a w. R f r f f. R d f t g

[Mia Del Turco · Rating 5 out of 5]

So funny! I love reading big nate comics in my spare time!!!!

[Annie Metcalf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great BIG NATE

I like how it looks like Nate is wishful thinking on being and getting In too much trouble for me to find funny.😤📑📑✏📝📝📉📉📉📉📉📉📉 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH A CCCCCCAAAAAATTTTTT🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
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[E. Mellyberry · Rating 5 out of 5]

My kid collects all Big Nate books, but this is the first Big Nate that I borrowed from him after he finished reading it. It was hillarious :)

[Gary Vassallo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny, and at times hilarious, collection of Big Nate comic strips. A quick enjoyable read. Highly recommended.

[Jaime Ramos · Rating 5 out of 5]

its a great book and what i want to tell the author is that to make for big nate books

[steve stack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book!

Amazing comics with lots of laughs. It is not a story but has lots of comics. Great for ages 8-12.

[Pun]

Great book! Absolutely Hilarious with jokes all the way! A great way for me to relax after all those big heavy book! :P

[Slow Man · Rating 3 out of 5]

This format of a book is hard to hold therefore, the reading experience has been affected. And I don't really fancy the black and white hand drawn comic strips within the coloured strip. Other than that, he's still got it.

[Alya Atiera · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Sushi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good great cool

It was good I think it’s the best the 882 time reading it


Yup I think it is

22 my favorite number

[Margaret Dunlap · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love big Nate

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[Art · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny!

[Luke N Smith §:-0 · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thrill a minute

Captivating writing, great jokes, and just enough sarcasm to engage the entire family. What a great book. Lincoln Pierce Does it again.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good

I liked the book
I recommend this book for kids who love comics and slap stick comedy
But overall I like the book

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of funny but kind of hard to follow

[Sebastian Campos · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted a simple, funny book to read. I fondly remember this book when I was younger, but apparently my memory did not serve correctly. It was pretty bad, to say the least.

[Gabriel · Rating 4 out of 5]

so good

[Kari Pagel · Rating 1 out of 5]

It sucked

It was baaaaaaaaaaaad way to boring to read so it was baaaaaaaaaadddddd all in all it sucked never reading again

[William Mildren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great

[Stacey Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of Big Nate Sunday comics in one big book. Short strips make for easy, quick reading. See Nate being harassed by his hated teacher Mrs. Godfrey, trying not to play football with his embarrassing father, trying to outwit his friends and get Jenny to love him. Fun read.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

More fun from Nate Wright, the sixth grader who just can't keep himself out of trouble. This compilation of two years' worth of Sunday comic strips is sure to make plenty of new fans for Nate and for the strip while pleasing those familiar with his predilection for trouble. Over and over, Nate pits his own wits against his nemesis, his social studies teacher, Mrs. Godfrey, at school, and hones his drawing skills while depicting his father and sister in unflattering lights. What makes his efforts so amusing, of course, is that he never gets away with anything and they always catch him when he thinks he's pulled something over on them. Some of the funniest strips involve his sister Ellen and her boyfriend, Gordie, dubbed the "Velcro couple" (p. 43) by Nate since they seem unable to do anything without the other one. This book is perfect for middle graders who claim to be uninterested in reading.

[Yohanes Beny · Rating 4 out of 5]

i bought this book from Periplus when that book store have discount. and maybe this is the 1st English comic that i ever buy (usually i buy a novel of fantasy, sci-fi, horror books).
this book is quite funny and entertaining. i love the main character, Nate. he, like ordinary school boys, who has "not you again" teacher, parents, sister, sister's BF, friends and the couple of paper-pencil (because he has a big dream become a comic writer).

[Jessi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was hard to read as an ebook. The version I had (Overdrive) wouldn't let you zoom in so the print was fairly tiny. Other than that, a nice Big Nate book. Felt like about half of the Sunday strips were also versions of Nate's strips with the other half being about a year in the life of the Big Nate comics. A nice, fast read.

[Wilde Sky · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book contains a series of cartoons featuring a young boy.

A few of the strips were good, but overall I couldn’t find any charm in this book (I thought the main character was a bit of a brat) – but looking at the other reviews for this book it could just be me.

[Steve Fritz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is insulting

Hi, I would like to inform you that I am not going to read any more of these insulting books because I am the real Mrs. Godfrey and not only are these things insulting they are also very overpriced and terrible...😠😒 Furthermore, I am skinny and blonde👎😈🔱