Nate the Great

Nate the Great is a series of 31 children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and featuring the boy detective Nate the Great. Sharmat and the illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great, a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. ^[1] Simont illustrated the first twenty books, to 1998; the last ten were illustrated by Martha Weston, Jody Wheeler, or Olga and Aleksey Ivanov "in the style of Marc Simont". Some of the titles were jointly written with Sharmat's sister Rosalind Weinman,^[2] husband Mitchell Sharmat or sons Craig Sharmat and Andrew Sharmat. Regarding the series, Marjorie Sharmat has called her husband Mitchell "always my first editor, and it's been a very happy collaboration".^[2]

Nate the Great Goes Undercover was adapted as a television program and won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award.^[when?] The New York Public Library named Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden (1997, number 19) one of its "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing".^{[clarification needed][3]}

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's husband, Mitchell Sharmat, died in 2011 and her sister, Rosalind Weinman, in 2006. With Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's death in 2019, Andrew Sharmat has continued writing the series with Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot (2021).^[4]