Customer Reviews

Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt (Nate the Great, No. 12)

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This is a good book for Halloween because it takes place on Halloween. It is really, really, really funny. Nate thought his dog was a ghost and that made me laugh. It was my favorite Nate the Great book. It was the funniest book I ever read.

ISBN 0440403413 - Printed in the United States of America (a plus, for me!). Nate the Great and Halloween seem to have been made for each other. The Halloween Hunt is bound to appeal to the target audience of 6 to 9 year olds, as well as regular fans of the innocently egotistical Nate.

Nate is at home on Halloween with his dog, Sludge, answering the door for trick-or-treaters, when a mystery knocks. Rosamond's cat, Little Hex, has gone missing! Nate has Rosamond go over her actions since she lost saw the cat and, after a false start or two, finds the lost feline with simple deductive reasoning. And the help of Sludge, of course.

Author Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's Nate is an awesome character, as smart as any adult and as randomly hilarious as only kids can be. I dislike the way the text is laid out in the book, with really short lines in a really large font and line-breaks without any reason, but beyond that, there's not a thing I'd complain about. The illustrations by Marc Simont are appropriately dark and spooky when they should be and funny at just the right times. Nate the Great is a series that boys, in particular, will enjoy.

- AnnaLovesBooks

my son's love the Nate the Great collection he is 6 years old. I was so happy to find such a wide variety. thank you!!

My son is a beginning reader and this is a great introduction to chapter books for him. The fact that it's close to Halloween really helps, too. It's a fun book!

Christmas is on the list and getting special items are the fun of the seasons of the year. Thankyou much.

My grandson K, soon to be five, loved this mystery! Learning to figure things out is good for him, and he enjoys the challenge and ending.