Community Activity:Reading Big Nate Reviews!

Hey, Swasimcool here! Today I'll be reading a few Big Nate reviews and just giving my opinion on them. These reviews are from Common Sense Media.

Neptunes note- I will also react

Swasimcool - Ok this one was rated one star out of five.
age 18+

 

Inappropriate Jokes...stay away
'''In one of these books at least, there is an insult one person says to another about an overweight parent and farting. This entire series has since been banned from our house. Unless you want your kid calling other kids' parents overweight, stay away from this series. Choose something positive.'''

Swasimcool - Wow. This parent must be very strict lol. Apparently jokes about farting and being overweight is considered 18+. I also don't think any child is stupid enough to follow in the footsteps of Nate. The books aren't supposed to serve as guides for making your child act right, its just humor.

''Neptune- ok this sounds like a commoncase of boomerness. go see a doctor''

Swasimcool - The next one is rated two out of five.
age 11+

 

Disrespectful
I only read the first few pages of one of these books in the series and then took it away from my 8 year old.

The back cover had boys arguing over asking a girl out - not subject matter for an 8 year old (he got it in his elementary school library).

Then I read the beginning and the first three comics disrespected his father, then his teacher, then his principal. NOT the kinds of behavior I want modeled for my son. I didn't even read the rest; I just took it away from him.

I would not let my kids of any age read this because there is no value to it and it models disrespect towards others.

Swasimcool - Like I said before it is just a joke lol. Also you literally rated it 11+ and since its an elementary school, 5th and 4th graders would probably be reading it. The purpose for these books are not to serve as role models. They are just for humor.

''Neptune- this parent sounds like they need to chill out. If your going to be that sensitive, you might as well put your child on a desert island so he cant grow up and find out that there's something called real life.''

big nate + a class by himself = forever alone
'''Wimpy Kid is a hit in realistic fiction sales, but why did so many desperate book publishers decide to decoy it? First came Dork Diaries, a natural disaster beyond natural disasters, now this? It's a great book, but it's thick on entertainment, but thin on actual plot. Some parts of the book are not amusing at all, and I wouldn't think kids would appeal much to a full-out lip lock performed by minor hallway students seen in the book. I believe that Big Nate wouldn't do well as a Wimpy Kid decoy, and especially after the second disaster, I don't think this series will go too far. Now anyways, about the book, you could buy it for kids, but give it a 2nd look, honestly.'''

Swasimcool - I mean, there is a lot of things wrong about your review. Big Nate was created BEFORE Diary of A Wimpy Kid. "Thick on entertainment but thin on actual plot." I don't know about it. The entire book is about one plot and usually there aren't many subplots in the novels. Now if you are talking about the comics, then of course thats true. Comics are for entertainment but not to give a compelling story.

Neptune- I have no words

BIG NATE IS FUNNY,BIG TIME (jeff kinney review about big nate)
BIG NATE IS SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-DELUXE-ASIA SIZED(fact:asia is the largest contenit in the world)-EPIRE STATE BUILDING SIZED-BIGFOOT SIZED-XTRA XTRA XTRA XTRA LARGE SIZED-BIG TIME-LARGE-THRILLING-CHILLING-SIZE OF PACIFIC OCEAN COOL!

Swasimcool - what

Neptune- this is obviously a marking technique that gets people to buy big Nate.

This one gave the book a whopping one star out of 5
Age 10+

==== '''The themes in this series are very outdated. Old fashioned clichés about kids in school. Lots of belittling and very little positiveness. Mostly it just seems like they were cranked out to sell books. I took the whole series away from my son because I started hearing things I would never teach him''' ====

''Neptune- this parent is clueless as to what school is like now. Also, your son has to learn these things somewhere, I mean c'mon, its a kids book. Stop doing this.''

''Zach- I just wanted to add my opinion: So what if it has older things included? The books are funny no matter who reads it (if you have a sense of humor which this parent obviously doesn't) and they are presented in a very funny way. The worst things that are said in the novels are probably "fart" and "fun sponge" (which aren't bad at all lol). This parent is probably just a super strict person that thinks it's extremely bad if your kid says something like "fart". ''

Evokes Inner Evil 18+
After taking one look at Chapter 2, I immediately knew that it would not be safe for a poor, innocent child to read this book before the age of 18. On the first page of Chapter 2, it shows Nate making a frowny face at the girl sitting behind him. Us parents cannot encourage such unspeakably evil behavior by purchasing this rude, disrespectful book. My friend Martha’s child was rude and disrespectful towards her after reading this book. Imagine what damage this book could do if each child read it!

''Bnb: ok wow, OMG nate did a frowny face at a girl. Thats such a bad influence! Next thing you know kids who are reading this are going to become criminals later in life. Geez Lady, calm down. Evokes inner evil? wth''

Fancy: These are a list of the worst:

Most of the reviews think it’s for 17-18+! I saw these:11+

DisrespectfulI only read the first few pages of one of these books in the series and then took it away from my 8 year old.

The back cover had boys arguing over asking a girl out – not subject matter for an 8 year old (he got it in his elementary school library).

Then I read the beginning and the first three comics disrespected his father, then his teacher, then his principal. NOT the kinds of behavior I want modeled for my son. I didn’t even read the rest; I just took it away from him.

I would not let my kids of any age read this because there is no value to it and it models disrespect towards others.

age 18+ Big nateI think its about akid in a class by him self

age 18+ Evokes inner evilAfter taking one look at Chapter 2, I immediately knew that it would not be safe for a poor, innocent child to read this book before the age of 18. On the first page of Chapter 2, it shows Nate making a frowny face at the girl sitting behind him. Us parents cannot encourage such unspeakably evil behavior by purchasing this rude, disrespectful book. My friend Martha’s child was rude and disrespectful towards her after reading this book. Imagine what damage this book could do if each child read it!

Age 18+I disagree with the description that the negative behaviors in these books are not likely emulated. I have found an increase in back talk and decrease in respect with these books.

age 17+ Not for kids

age 18+ Inappropriate Jokes…stay awayIn one of these books at least, there is an insult one person says to another about an overweight parent and farting. This entire series has since been banned from our house. Unless you want your kid calling other kids’ parents overweight, stay away from this series. Choose something positive.

7+The butt review (lol)

age 9+ Too much attitudeThis book and similar such teach mislead kids into using inappropriate language

I saw some more:

age 8+ cud of been better but gudit need a lil mor humor

age 11+ More Sexual Reference Than A Kid Book Should HaveMy two older kids read the first three books in the Big Nate series and really enjoyed them. I got books 4 and 5 a couple of months ago, so my 12 year old son read them right away. When my 8 year old son decided to begin reading them, my 12 year old informed me that it might not be appropriate for my 8 year old “because Nate says he and his friend should look at nude pictures”. Hoping he was kidding, I had him show me where this was….pg 218. While this, and the use of the word “sexy”(pg145), and “hot”(pg161), may be considered “curiosity” in the Sex category on this website, it is disappointing to me that Lincoln Peirce feels the need to include this in books that obviously are read by young children. I’m a parent working against culture to teach my kids that things like “trolling for nudity” and telling girls that “a frisking is in order” is not appropriate. Just another example of children’s entertainment stepping unnecessarily across the line.

Fancy: Okay, this 12 year old just doesn’t want his little brother to read it, because there is no nudity! I looked goddammit!