There is no Frigate like a Book
         To take us Lands away
                                ~ Emily Dickinson

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MARGERY CUYLER
 
Work isn’t work when you love it.

Margery Cuyler has been involved with children’s books as an author, editor, or publisher since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College.  She has written 35 + books, including the That’s Good! That’s Bad! books, The Biggest, Best Snowman, Kindness Is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler, 100th Day Worries,  Stop, Drop, and Roll, Skeleton Hiccups, Please Say Please! Penguin’s Guide to Manners, Please Play Safe: Penguin’s Guide to Playground Safety, Groundhog Stays Up Late, and The Bumpy Little Pumpkin. She has also written several chapter books, including Weird Wolf and The Battlefield Ghost. She has held executive positions at Holiday House, Henry Holt and Company, Golden Books Family Entertainment, Winslow Press, and, most recently, Marshall Cavendish, where she is Publisher of Children’s Books. She lives in Princeton, NJ, with her husband and two sons. Visit Margery at www.margerycuyler.com.
   
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Author Visits

For grades 1-3

Interactive presentation:

  • Projects  images (slides or Powerpoint) of family, pets, and work space
  • Talks about importance of the imagination (where ideas come from)
  • Discusses what a character is
  • Reads aloud 3 to 4 books while projecting images so kids can see artwork
  • Questions and answers

For grades 3-5

Interactive presentation:

  • Projects images (slides or Powerpoint) of family, pets, and work space
  • Discusses where ideas come from
  • Focuses on the where, when, what, who of story writing
  • Discusses the importance of presenting and solving a problem
  • Explains how research on werewolves  solved plot challenges in Weird Wolf (chapter book)
  • Stresses importance of revision
  • Reads first chapter of Weird Wolf
  • Interactive character exercise
  • Questions and answers – but ongoing interactive discussion during presentation

 

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Books

     

Kindness Is Cooler,
Mrs. Ruler

Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa
Simon and Schuster

  That's Good, That's Bad
in Washington, D.C.

Illustrated by Michael Garland
Henry Holt
  Skeleton Hiccups
Illustrated by S. D. Schindler
McElderry Books
  Roadsigns
Illustrated by Steve Haskamp
Marshall Cavendish
 
     
The Biggest, Best Snowman
Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand
Scholastic
  100th Day Worries
Illustrated by Arthur Howard
Simon and Schuster
 

Groundhog Stays Up Late
Illustrated by Jean Cassels
Walker

  The Bumpy Little Pumpkin
Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand
Scholastic

 

View more available titles at margerycuyler.com:

Ah-Choo! (Scholastic)
Please Say Please! Penguin’s Guide to Manners
(Scholastic)
Please Play Safe! Penguin’s Guide to Playground Safety
(Scholastic)
Big Friends
( Walker)
That’s Good! That’s Bad! in the Grand Canyon
(Henry Holt)
That’s Good! That’s Bad!
(Henry Holt)
From Here to There
(Henry Holt)
Invisible in the Third Grade
(Henry Holt)
Weird Wolf (Henry Holt)

Check your library for other titles by Margery Cuyler:

Fat Santa (Henry Holt)
Shadow’s Baby
(Clarion)
 Baby Dot: A Dinosaur Story
(Clarion)
Sir William and the Pumpkin Monster
(Henry Holt)
Freckles and Jane
(Henry Holt)
Freckles and Willie
(Henry Holt)
Daisy’s Crazy Thanksgiving
(Henry Holt)
Buddy Bear and the Bad Guys
(Clarion)
The Christmas Snowman
(Arcade/Penguin)
Jewish Holidays
(Henry Holt)
The Battlefield Ghost
(Scholastic)
The Trouble with Soap
(Dutton)
The All-Around Pumpkin Book
(Henry Holt)
The All-Around Christmas Book
(Henry Holt)

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Honors and Awards

100th Day Worries

  • A Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College of Education
  • IRA Teacher’s Choice
  • New York Charlotte Book Award nominee
  • Alabama Emphasis on Reading nominee
  • Maryland Children’s Book Award nominee

Skeleton Hiccups

  • A Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College of Education
  • Wisconsin Golden Archer Award winner
  • Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • Colorado Children’s Book Award nominee
  • Best Picture Book of the Year, Japan, Mainichi Newspaper sponsor

From Here to There

  • Texas 2 x 2 Reading List
  • Texas Mockingbird Award nominee
  • Texas Reading Club

Roadsigns

  • Adventuring with Books selection, National Council of Teachers of English

That’s Good! That’s Bad!

  • IRA Children’s Choice
  • Texas Reading Club

Stop, Drop, and Roll

  • A Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College of Education

The Biggest, Best Snowman

  • PW starred review
  • A Best Children’s Book of the Year,  Bank Street College of Education
  • Kentucky Bluegrass Award nominee
  • Indiana Young Hoosier Award nominee

The Battlefield Ghost

  • A Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College of Education
  • Adventuring with Books selection, National Council of Teachers of English
  • New Mexico Land of Enrichment nominee
  • South Carolina Book Award nominee
  • Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award nominee