Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, who helped children discover the joys of reading with more than two dozen books in her Nate the Great series about a pancake-eating boy detective, died March 12 at a ...

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, who helped children discover the joys of reading with more than two dozen books in her Nate the Great series about a pancake-eating boy detective, died March 12 at a hospital ...

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, who helped children discover the joys of reading with more than two dozen books in her Nate the Great series about a pancake-eating boy detective, died March 12 at a ...

Boy detective Nate (Seth Hoffman) wears a Sam-Spade-style trench coat, but he's more in the Sherlock Holmes and Adrian Monk mode, an observer, thinker and deducer who lives to solve mysteries ...

Sharmat’s sister, Rosalind Weinman, was co-author of “Nate the Great and the Pillowcase” (1993). Another son, Craig, collaborated with his mother on three “Nate” books, including “Nate ...

Her books about Nate, who was named after her father, sold 15 million copies, according to the publishing company Penguin Random House. Many of those volumes featured pictures by the Caldecott ...