Saturday, August 4, 2012

Big Nate: From the Top


Big Nate: From the Top. by Lincoln Peirce. (2010). 223p. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel.

Awards and Honors: none

Review
Big Nate: From the Top is a collection of comic strips featuring the antics of eleven-year-old Nate Wright, a wise-cracking troublemaker, class clown and anti-hero. Big Nate goofs off, gets in trouble and generally drives all the adults in his life crazy, though he also gets his share of comeuppance, too.
 
Opinion:
Though much of the humor is rather unoriginal, younger tweens will be left in stitches at Nate's mischievous adventures. Unfortunately though there are a few laughs here and there, I find Big Nate a bit too mean-spirited for my taste. (For instance, making fun of a foreign exchange student for the way he speaks is just not funny to me.)

Ideas:
Big Nate should appeal to reluctant readers, as well as fans of the Wimpy Kid stories who have exhausted all the books in that series.

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