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Muggie Maggie

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We really enjoyed it and it was funny! Our favorite part was when Maggie learns how to do cursive. We think other third graders would enjoy this book; maybe even younger kids, too. We think we will read more Beverly Cleary books now that we have read this one.

Charlie, Jakob, Allison, Lindsey and Shannon

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 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.

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 is about a girl who doesn't want to write in cursive. Then it starts to be a problem and her mom has to go to a parent teacher conference. Then when she tries to write in cursive she draws roller coasters instead of cursive. Then she goes to the guidance counselor. My favorite part was when she goes to the guidance counselor because I had a good picture in my mind. Maggie also has a dog named kisser, and is very cute. Muggie Maggie is a very good book. Muggie Maggie is very exciting. I give it four stars. You should read this book.

There is this girl Maggie who is in third grade. She refuses to write cursive. Her teacher says the way she writes her name looks like, "Muggie." Her teacher makes her the message monitor and tells everyone about what happened. Soon all of her friends are talking about Maggie's decision. She figures out they're talking about her and feels INDIGNANT. With Muggie Maggie ringing in her ear, Maggie feels angry. The principal asks her why she won't write cursive. She says, "I just don't want to." Will Maggie learn to write cursive?


If you don't like to write cursive, or you don't want to, we recommend this book to you. We'd also recommend this book to you if you DO like to write cursive. This book is short and exciting. If you like books that will make you laugh and upset you should read this book. Nobody's going to make Maggie learn cursive. Or will they?

I found moments of this book that read much like Frindle, so that was really neat. Maggie was a very relatable character--show me one person who actually liked the cursive-writing units in school! Back then, I'm sure people actually used it, but still. Such a waste of time for a lot of illegible scribblings! It's a very short book, read in its entirety while my mom drove home from the library, and yet, within 70 pages, Cleary managed to create a fully developed, highly memorable character in Maggie. The charm that was lacking highly in Dear Mr. Henshaw and Strider made an awesome reappearance here! Cute!

Rating: 5/5

i read this book when i was younger, and i liked it so much that i reread it again. it's a cute story about a girl, maggie, who doesn't want to learn cursive. her teacher lets her not learn cursive and appoints her offical class mail messenger. knowing that maggie is very snoppy and will want to read all the mail she delivers, the teacher writes the messages in cursive. then maggie begins to think that some of the mail is about her! now if she wants to find out what everyone is saying about her, she will need to learn cursive. will maggie learn, or will she never know what is being written. a cute story and nice lesson about not giving up just because the task proves a bit difficult.

It was this girl named Maggie and she didn't know how to write cursive very well. So she decided one day if she can't do then she want do it at all. Her teachers, parents, and principal tried to make her but she want listen to them. Her parents and everybody eles tried to, but she just said no and didn't do it. One day she had to write a letter all she did was make lines like roller coaster lines. She also thought she was doing something. She thought she did really good and she started to brag to her friends about how good she did, but when she got her paper back she started to pout and inquire her teacher. Saying how did I get this bad grade. So she went home and she tried and tried. The next day the teacher let her take the test over. When she got that test back she made ...........The End

By: Aisha Trogdon

The book Muggie Maggie is a great story for students that are learning cursive. The character Maggie tries her best to learn how to write in cursive. There are many funny parts in the story that make it interesting to read. The book is helpful because it has some parts written in cursive. We recommend this book to kids that don't know how to write cursive.