mail	Vancouver, BC
e	jump8999@yahoo.ca
web	http://www.cynthianugent.com http://www.fredandpeteatthebeach.com/

Biography

Cynthia Nugent is a nationally-recognized and award-winning children’s book author/illustrator. Her 2004 juvenile novel Francesca and the Magic Bike received rave reviews and has received numerous award nominations, including being shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes. All of her books have been on the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Our Choice lists. Cynthia has a B.A. (cum laude) in English literature with graduate studies in Comparative literature. She taught Writing for Children at Langara College, has judged for literary prizes and is a much-requested presenter at schools and libraries. She is currently enrolled in the MA program in Children's Literature at UBC and is writing a chapter book with Tradewind Books.

Book types: picture books, juvenile fiction

Guest speaker/presentation information

Please email me for current fees. Go to http://www.cynthianugent.com for links to photos and short description of my school presentations, art gallery and more.

Presentation geographic range: Vancouver, Coast, Lower Mainland, Gulf and Vancouver Islands, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, The Territories, Canada - beyond BC, USA

Presentation audience age groups: primary school, grades K-3, grades 4-6, grades 7-8, high school, college/university/adult

Published work

My writing:
Francesca and the Magic Bike, Raincoast
Fred and Pete at the Beach (author/ilustrator), Orca

My Illustration:

Mister Got to Go, Simmie, Red Deer
Mister Got to Go and Arnie, Simmie, Raincoast
Goodness Gracious Gulliver Mulligan, Browne, Raincoast
When Cats Go Wrong, Hacking, Raincoast
Memories, Wells, Scholastic Education
Invisible Ink, Terry Griggs, Raincoast
The Emerald Curse, Rose, Tradewind Books
The Aunts Come Marching, Bill RichardsonRaincoast
Honey Cake, Stuchner, Tradewind Books
I Want to Go to the Moon, Saunders, Simply Read Books, 2010
Somebody Cared for a Flower, Peetoom, Scholastic Education, 2010
Dances and Dreams CD package, Books for BC Babies, 2007

Novel Covers:
Cat's Eye Corner, Terry Griggs, Raincoast
The Silver Door, Terry Griggs, Raincoast
Ice Cream Town, Arato, Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Serf's Up, Szpirglas, Scholastic Education
The Heretic's Tomb, Rose, Tradewind Books



In progress:
Kiddo (author/illustrator), Tradewind books, 2011
The Ducks of Nitobe Garden (author/illustrator), Simply Read Books, 2011

Awards & recognition

2011, Chocolate Lily for Fred and Pete at the Beach
2010, Fred and Pete at the Beach, chosen by VEPVPA for all
Vancouver elementary school libraries
2009, Chocolate Lily for illustrating Honey Cake
by Joan Stuchner, Tradewind Books
2008, Time to Read: BC Achievement Foundation Award
for Early Literacy for The Aunts Come Marching, 50,000 copies distributed to all kindergarten students in BC
1995-2006, Our Choice, Children’s Canadian Book Centre for
all the books I have illustrated and written
2006, shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily award (B.C.),
Francesca and the Magic Bike & When Cats Go Wrong
2006, Francesca and the Magic Bike, shortlisted for the
Red Cedar (BC), and Manitoba and Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice awards
2005, Francesca and the Magic Bike, shortlisted for the
BC Book Prizes
2004, hon. mention, Alcuin excellence in children's book design award, When Cats Go Wrong
2003, winner Shining Willow (Sask.Young Readers' Choice) for
Mr. Got to Go and Arnie
1996 Winter, winner Picture Book Quarterly (U.K.), best book for Mister Got to Go
1996, Sask. Book Awards, winner Children's Literature Award for Mister Got to Go
1996, Writers' Guild of Alberta, winner Best Children's Book,
Best Children's Book Illustration, Mister Got to Go
1996, Alberta Book Industry, Children's Title of the Year;
winner Book Illustration Award for Mister Got to Go
1995, City of Vancouver Book Prize finalist (of 3), Mister Got to Go