![]() While Robert Munsch has countless fans across North America (he receives about 10,000 letters a year!) his books are also popular around the world. Each book is dedicated to the kid or kids it is based on. Sometimes, as in Finding Christmas and Pyjama Day!, he even uses his own family. But nearly ALL of them are based on real kids that Robert Munsch has met, often on his tours and travels. Some, like The Paper Bag Princess and Zoom!, challenge conventions and stereotypes. Some, like Love You Forever, became runaway international bestsellers. Today, more than 50 Robert Munsch books have been published. The publisher said “Yes!” to the story that became the book Mud Puddle. This would become his signature storytelling style.Įventually, once his stories got really, really good, he wrote them down and sent them to a publisher. Kids liked how loud and animated he was while he told them stories, so he kept doing that, too. He would often take the same story and tell it again and again, changing it a little bit each time, until it got to be really good. ![]() The children liked his stories, so he started telling them more often. The first time he told his stories to a group of children was in 1972, when he was a student teacher at their nursery school. ![]() Robert Munsch is Canada's bestselling author. Long before he started writing books, he was a storyteller. Joint winner, Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2019. ![]()
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