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Big Nate Wright is an aspiring cartoonist who doodles his observations in his notebook. Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association since 1991. Creator Lincoln Peirce portrays the energetic sixth grader in his relationships with teachers, classmates and his family. Peirce occasionally even turns his cartooning pen over to his creation, and readers get to see life through Nate's eyes as he doodles his adventures in his notebook. Big Nate is about a real kid and his reactions to the world around him. Much of the action in Big Nate takes place at school, says Peirce, "because in so many ways school is as much a formative experience as anything learned at home." Nate spends a lot of his time doodling while he should be doing his homework. Cartoonist Peirce explains, "I want Nate to be an essentially enthusiastic and likable kid. Really, his only crime is that he has a naive and inflated sense of his own importance. But," Peirce adds, "who doesn't?" Nate, who lives with his divorced dad and his older sister, Ellen, enjoys pestering his family and teachers with his sarcasm. To draw Big Nate, titled after a nickname the cartoonist gave to his older brother, Peirce relies on memories of his own childhood and the experiences he collected teaching art at Xavier High School in New York City. The first Big Nate book, Add More Babes! (Topper Books, 1992), a collection of Big Nate strips, was a hit with kids across the U.S. through Scholastic Great American Book Fairs and The Trumpet Book Club.
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