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saidtheraina's review against another edition
4.0
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 [a:Jimmy Gownley|266508|Jimmy Gownley|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1386283306p2/266508.jpg]'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.
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 [a:Jimmy Gownley|266508|Jimmy Gownley|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1386283306p2/266508.jpg]'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.
ssejig's review against another edition
3.0
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.
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