Margery Closey Quigley

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Margery Closey Quigley

b. 1886

Best known as one half of the team behind the classic children's book The Poppy Seed Cakes, this librarian-author helped turn a love of reading into stories for young readers. She also wrote about library life itself, including Portrait of a Library, a 1936 work later adapted into a film.

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Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs

Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs

by Margery Closey Quigley

About the author

Born in 1886, she was an American librarian and writer whose work bridged the worlds of books, children, and public libraries. Under the shared pen name Margery Clark, she and fellow librarian Mary E. Clark coauthored children's books, with The Poppy Seed Cakes becoming their best-known title.

Her career in libraries was a major part of her life and writing. She worked as a librarian in Endicott, New York, and later spent many years at the Montclair Free Public Library in New Jersey, where she eventually retired in 1956.

She also wrote beyond children's fiction. Her book Portrait of a Library appeared in 1936 and was later adapted into a film, reflecting her deep interest in library work and the communities libraries serve. She died in 1968.