All aboard the Owl Express! Nate, the great detective, and his dog Sludge, hit the rails on their latest case. Nate the Great books are fabulous for early readers who are ready to move from picture books to their first chapter books. They are also great read aloud books for preschoolers.

All aboard the Owl Express! Nate, the great detective, and his dog Sludge, hit the rails on their latest case. Their mission: To guard an owl named Hoot. Hoot belongs to Nate’s cousin, Olivia Sharp, and she thinks someone on the train might be out to get her feathered friend. But whooo? Sludge keeps an eye on the owl’s cage while Nate snoops for clues. Right now, I'm reading the books to my three year old, and I will have him read them to me again when he reaches that level of reading.

New illustrations of Nate the Great, Sludge, Fang, Annie, Rosamond, and the. Hexes by Martha Weston based upon the original drawings by Marc Simont. Published in the United States by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

Kindergarten-Grade 3-The Sharmat team keeps its series fresh in this 24th case for the young detective. Here, theatrical cousin Olivia fears for the safety of her pet owl and enlists Nate and his dog to escort Hoot on a train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. With plenty of suspects, comical plot twists, and a satisfying resolution, the authors carry on their tradition of interesting, but peacefully concluded mysteries.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. All aboard the Owl Express! Someone on the train is out to get Olivia’s pet owl, Hoot. But whooo? Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, hit the rails to help out. Then Hoot disappears! Can Nate solve the mystery? Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book! Visit Nate the Great and Sludge! NatetheGreatBooks. With plenty of suspects, comical plot twists, and a satisfying resolution. MARTHA WESTON illustrated How Will the Easter Bunny Know? by Kay Winters (Yearling), as well as more than forty books for children, including six she also wrote.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (November 12, 1928 – March 12, 2019) was an American children's writer. 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.

Martha Weston (Illustrator). Nate the Great books aren't that great. I hated them when I was a kid, yet I would always read them. The endings of the books were always the same, they figured out what or who did it. And where are Nate's parents?

By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Illustrated by Mitchell Sharmat and Martha Weston. All aboard the Owl Express! Nate, the great detective, and his dog Sludge, hit the rails on their latest case.

By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Illustrated by Mitchell Sharmat and Martha Weston. By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Illustrated by Mitchell Sharmat and Martha Weston. Hoot belongs to Nate’s cousin, Olivia Sharp, and she thinks someone on the train might be out to get her feathered friend.

Nate the Great is a series of more than two dozen children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat featuring the eponymous boy detective, Nate the Great

Nate the Great is a series of more than two dozen children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat featuring the eponymous boy detective, Nate the Great. Sharmat and illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great, a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, and Simont illustrated the first twenty books, to 1998.

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