is a cartoonist/writer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, Big Nate Strikes Again, and the collections Big Nate: From the Top and Big Nate: Out Loud. He is also the creator of the comic strip Big Nate. It appears in two hundred and fifty U.S. newspapers and online daily at www.bignate.com. Big Nate was selected for Horn Book Magazine's Fanfare List of Best Books of 2010 and BarnesandNoble.com's Top Ten. Also, Big Nate will be published in sixteen countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Indonesia, Israel, Italy Japan, Portueal Spain Taiwan and Turkey,