By Lincoln Peirce
The comic-strip Nate: a sixth-grader convinced he's destined for greatness, forever landing in detention instead.
Nate Wright is sure he's a genius, a champion, and the coolest child at school, and he is wrong about all of it in the funniest possible ways. These are the newspaper strips that started the whole Big Nate world — short daily gags about detention, dodgeball, his least-favorite teacher, and schemes that blow up in his face.
It's the same Nate from the chapter books, but in bite-size comic strips, so a child who won't sit with a novel gets the exact same humor in three-panel doses. Every strip stands alone, the jokes are all school stuff your child already knows, and if they love it the shelf of Big Nate books is enormous.