Big Nate: From the Top (Volume 1) Paperback – Illustrated, October 19, 2010

1. **Humor**: The witty and humorous situations in Nate's life are entertaining and relatable.2. **Characters**: The quirky and well-developed characters, like Nate, his friends, and his family, are engaging and memorable.3. **Art Style**: The expressive and dynamic illustrations add to the comedic effect and storytelling.4. **Relatability**: The everyday school and home experiences resonate with readers, making it easy to connect with Nate's adventures.5. **Light-heartedness**: The overall tone is light-hearted and fun, making it a pleasant read.Which aspects did you enjoy the most?

My son and I totally enjoyed it. Here are the 13 more words required for this review so I can submit it.

As a general rule, I pooh-pooh "graphic" novels. To me, that's a euphemism for comics (Archie, anyone?) and really, all kids should be reading LITERATURE!!! Enter in one of my twin boys. He's a "reluctant reader" who took to Nate. He begged me to read Nate. Months of procrastination later, I picked on up and was surprised to find that I thought the books were honestly funny and, so long as the parent discusses with the child the meaning of sarcasm, irony and sardonic wit (and how that's all great in a book but NOT GOOD in real life) then the books are not only harmless, but a solidly constructive step towards reading "real" books. I know, readers of my review will be appalled at my literary snobbery. What can I say. I am a wanna-be erudite.So, for "reluctant" readers, especially boys, this would be a relatively benign choice (v. Wimpy Kid which I don't like as much). For any other child, this is a reasonable addition as a funny alternative to literature. These would be good on a family vacation when everyone relaxes with a book in the afternoon. I would say target age is from 7-10ish. My boys are 8 and 10 and loved them.

This book is good but it needs to be longer and it doesn’t have enough kicks I would opt for something longer and funnier like Calvin and Hobbes

Super funny. The first Big Nate I read was book 7, and the style of this one is a bit more enjoyable.

THIS. IS. AWESOME. It's the funniest books i have ever read. so i have a couple things- 1: on page 40 or so nate says that dogs are more important than cats. any Cat lovers out there (witch i am) i just want to say that cats are not like DUMB or anything cats are actually pretty strong! my fav animals are 1cat 2dog 3pandabear but my number 2 thing to say is that i am almost through the whole series because i LOVE your books! ok. bye!!!!:)

I have not read it yet but I believe it is a great book. If you are just starting to read this series it is very funny. Nate is a kid with a very funny life. He can get dumb at times though. His friend Francis will call him a moron sometimes but when Nate gets dumb,Francis corrects him. Nate also has a friend named teddy.He is usually on Francis's team. I don't know why it is called BIG NATE because he is not big. Maybe because he is the big character or something. In the book DIBS ON THIS CHAIR NATE has a girlfriend named Angie. I don't think she is in any other book. This book is going to be great. Trust me.

I liked the book overall, it just needs some more sense because it has a lot of funny, but COMPLETELY random strips, also if you could continue the normal series further, that would be AWESOME!P.S. (to the author) You are my favorite comic/story author because your books are well made (except for the small problem in my review above) and intriguing and hard to stop reading!(Genuine Review)Your biggest fan, Matthew