Amanda Kornblatt is a sixth-grade student at P.S. 38. She has an obsession with horses and has several books about them which she reads at the BBC. This was in the Big Nate book, Big Nate Lives It Up.
Trivia[]
- Nate said that Amanda's drawing of ponies; which ended up in the Display Case outside of the P.S. 38 Art Room; looked like "a bunch of sausages with legs".
- When Mrs. Hickson told Amanda's class about P.S. 38 when it was first built, Amanda got excited, and imagined people riding horses to school. She wished she lived back then, since she has a deep love for horses.
- Some of the horse-related books Amanda reads are Pony Time and the Wonderflanks series: (Wonderflanks, and Wonderflanks 2: The Race).
- Nate Wright had joked about her books, calling Wonderflanks 3, 4, and 5 "the nap", "the coma",and "the skull fracture".
- In the P.S. 38 Centennial Scavenger Hunt, she was in Rodrick Rebels, but the team didn't won.
Appearances[]
- Big Nate: Lives It Up
- Big Nate: Flips Out
- Big Nate: Blasts Off ( A minor appearance)
More[]
Many readers had wondered why Amanda hadn't appeared in the comic strips, only the novels. Other readers had stated that she had appeared, but she hadn't spoken.