Now I Am Six! A Collection of Stories All About Being Six for Beginning Readers

Ages #6

by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Syd Hoff, A.A. Milne

Five anthologies target ages with birthday-party specificity. It's Fun to Be Five (ages 5-7) and Now I Am Six (ages 6-9) have eight stories each, by authors such as A.A. Milne and Rosemary Wells. It's Heaven to Be Seven (ages 7-10); It's Great to Be Eight (ages 7-10) and It's Fine to Be Nine (ages 8-11) each gather a dozen stories with black-and-white illustrations; authors include Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl.

Genres: Childrens

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was an American children's writer. She wrote more than 130 books for children and teens and her books have been translated into several languages. They have won awards including Book of the Year by the Library of Congress or have become selections by the Literary Guild.
Perhaps Sharmat's most popular work features the child detective Nate the Great. He was inspired by and named after her father, who lived to see the first Nate book published. One story, Nate the Great Goes Undercover, was adapted as a made-for-TV movie that won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. Sharmat's husband Mitchell Sharmat expanded Nate's storyline by creating Olivia Sharp, his cousin and fellow detective. Husband and wife wrote four Olivia Sharp books published 1989 to 1991. During the 1990s, their son Craig Sharmat (then in his thirties) wrote three Nate books with his mother. In the late 2010s, their other son Andrew Sharmat co-wrote the last two Nate books written while Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was alive. With Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's passing in 2019 Andrew has continued writing the series with Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot (2021).
In the mid-1980s Sharmat wrote three books published in 1984 and 1985 under the pseudonym Wendy Andrews.
Sharmat also wrote the Sorority Sisters series, eight short novels published in 1986 and 1987. They are romantic fiction with a sense of humor. They are set in a California public high school (day school for ages 14 to 18, approximately).

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter and I loved this book! It is filled with classic stories about being six taken from 'Now We Are Six' by A. A. Milne, 'Danny and the Dinosaur' by Syd Hoff, 'Nate the Great' by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, 'Sparky and Eddie: The First Day of School' by Tony Johnston, 'Training Wheels' by Kathryn Cristaldi, 'Pee Wee Scouts: Cookies and Crutches' by Judy Delton, 'My Make-Believe Dog' by Gail Herman, and 'Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!' by Miriam Cohen. Your six-year-old will surely enjoy them!

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

LFL find. Cute enough. Of course, not every 6 yo will be able to read these by themselves. But of course it's a good introduction to other works they might like more. Still, kinda dated... I wish Danny and the Dinosaur would go out of fashion.

[Kerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

My newly six year old son bought this book from our library's used book sale. It was actually recommended to him by a librarian after telling her he just turned six. The first page was cute. The rest of the book was excerpts of other books.