Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine Author:Marjorie Weinmzn Sharmat "Nate makes a great narrator, his clipped prose mimicking that of the hard-boiled detective genre, providing short, simple sentences for beginning readers, and setting up the deadpan humor. Simont's expresseive drawings, tinted with watercolor washes,illustrate the characters and the action with finesse and retraint. A most appealing choice...... more »" Booklist Boxed Review« less