Muggie Maggie

by Beverly Cleary

Book Overview

In this humorous and relatable novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a girl must overcome her rebellious attitude toward learning cursive.

At first, Maggie is just feeling plain stubborn when she declares she won't learn cursive. What's wrong with print, anyway? And she can easily type on a computer, so why would she need to know how to read those squiggly lines? But soon all her classmates are buzzing about Maggie's refusal to learn, especially after her teacher, Mrs. Leeper, says Maggie's cursive is so sloppy that her name looks like "Muggie."

With "Muggie Maggie" ringing in her ears, Maggie absolutely, positively won't back down...until she's appointed class mail messenger. All the letters that Mrs. Leeper sends to the office are in cursive, and Maggie thinks they are written about her. But there's only way to know for sure...so what's Maggie going to do?

For generations, Beverly Cleary has captivated readers of all ages with beloved characters such as Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse. Muggie Maggie follows suit with what School Library Journal calls "a likable, funny heroine whom readers will want to know."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380710870
• ISBN13: 9780380710874
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Wasn’t what I thought it was

The book I received wasn’t the one in the picture. It also wasn’t published in 2015 like the description stated. It’s a much older version, 1990s. So that’s was a disappointment. It also has less pages.

Muggie Maggie

Muggie Maggie is about a girl named Maggie who does not want to write cursive.Her teacher,mom and dad try to make her do it but she still refuses to do it.But once she haers people all over the school talking about her she makes herself write it.This book makes me feel sad in a way.It makes me sad because she refuses to right cursive and because it took her that long to write it.I reccomend this book because she had someing that she couldn't do and some people have the same thing and I want some kid to know that there are other kids like them even if they aren't real.

great book

This book got me interested in cursive handwriting when I was in the first and second grade. I was in a classroom mixed with first and second graders. Everyday for writing, the grade 1's would practice printing and the 2nd graders would practice handwriting, which looked very hard and I dreaded second grade. But when I reached transferred to another school in second grade, the teacher read Muggie Maggie to the class and just in time too. I also liked looking at the cursive writing included in the story and found it to be rather beautiful, and slowly I began to learn it once we started, and soon enough, I was able to master it. In Maggie's case, she felt as if she didn't need to learn how to do it because she preffered writing notes on the computer, and at the same time, she felt as though cursive challenged her gifted and talent capabilities, but would not admit it. The school did the "write" thing by having her be the class monitor and deliver messages to the principal written in cursive writing, and when she was curious to see what the notes said she realized she couldn't read cursive writing, and sure enough, she got the hang of it and practiced it secretly, and all was well at the end. But this book also has a lot of humor and captures the essence of the characters in this book. Beverly Cleary is like a child at heart and has a great understanding of putting herself in children's shoes, and that's why she has written great story books that are still being read by today's generation, whether it's Henry Huggins or Ellen Tebbits books that came out almost 50 years ago or all of our favourite character Ramona's books that have lasted for what seems like forever. I hope to read another book from Maggie in the future if Cleary continues writing.

Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

This is a wonderful story of a young girl and the obstacles she has to overcome to read and write cursive. Beverly Cleary takes Maggie on a journey everyone must go through early in school. Maggie confronts the conflict within herself to fight the desire to learn cursive. Maggie does not want to learn cursive because her teacher said to; she wants to learn in her own time. Maggie does some changing through the story and finally does find the joy of reading and writing cursive. Third graders learning cursive can relate to Maggie and the struggles she experiences. A must read for all young readers!

Muggie Maggie

This is A great book for people who can not read or write cursive.I recommend this book to kids in 2nd and 3rd grade.

Maggie prefers the computer to squiggly-wiggly cursive.

Muggie Maggie is a book about a 3rd grade girl named Maggie Schultz. In the book, Maggie does not want to learn cursive writing. She'd rather write on the computer or print. After days of not paying attention in cursive class, her teacher, Mrs. Leeper, picks her as a message monitor. She finds out her name is in almost every letter that she must deliver. But when she peeks at the letters, she can't read them. In the end, she gives in and learns cursive. I would recommend this book to kids everywhere who are learning cursive. But you must know how to read at least some cursive or you won't understand the concept. You can find it at local bookstores under Cleary. I hope you read it. (Kristina Weber/3rd Grade/University Elementary School)