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Robert Munsch (born June 11, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American-born Canadian author of children’s books, noted for his humorous and imaginative stories. His best-known work is Love You Forever (1986).
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Robert Norman Munsch CM (born June 11, 1945) is an American-born, Canadian children's author. [1] Personal life and career. Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1945. He grew up in a family of nine children. [2] .
YearTitleIllustrator2023Class TripMichael Martchenko2021Think Big!Dave Whamond2021I Can Fix It!Michael Martchenko2020TeamworkMichael MartchenkoThis story is about. Robert Munsch. from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was born on June 11, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I grew up in a family of 9 kids. At least, that is where I lived when I was young. My mother says I never grew up and still act like I was 6 years old.
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Robert Munsch grew up the fourth of nine children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By his own admission, he was a terrible student and a perpetual child. “My mother says I never grew up and still act like I was six years old,” he once said. “She may be right, but I figure that I act like a very mature six-year-old.” He has also admitted that, “I never ...
Munsch spent seven years in seminary school preparing to become a Jesuit priest. During that time, he also earned a BA in History at Fordham University and an MA in Anthropology at Boston University. He worked part-time at nursery schools and daycarecentres, and after leaving the Jesuits he completed a master’s degree in Child Studies at Tufts Univ...
Munsch started telling stories to his preschoolers in 1972. In 1975, Munsch and his wife, also a daycare worker, moved to Canada to join the Family Studies Department at the University of Guelph. Impressed with his stories and storytelling abilities, his colleagues encouraged him to write and publish them. He submitted his first written story, Mud ...
Munsch became a Canadian citizen in 1983 and lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife and their three adopted children. He suffered a stroke in 2008 that so interfered with his speech and memory that he has been unable to tour ever since. In 2010, he publicly discussed his recovery from alcoholand cocaine addiction, as well as his lifelong struggles...
Many of Munsch’s stories have been adapted for the stage, as both plays and musicals. A Bunch of Munsch (1991–92), an animated TV series based on his stories, was broadcast on CTV in Canada and Showtime in the US. Love You Forever was the basis for a musical composition by Marjan Mozetich. It was premiered by Toronto’s Quartetto Gelato in 2005. In ...
Munsch received a Juno Award in 1985 for his recording Murmel, Murmel, Munsch: More Outrageous Stories (1985). His book Thomas' Snowsuit won the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award in 1986. In 1992, he was named “Author of the Year” by the Canadian Booksellers’ Association. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999 and served as the first...
Best Children’s Album (Murmel Murmel Munsch), Juno Awards(1985)Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award (Thomas' Snowsuit), The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (1986)Author of the Year, Canadian Booksellers’ Association (1992)Member, Order of Canada(1999)Mud Puddle(1979)The Dark(1979)The Paper Bag Princess(1980)Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound: Or Blackberry Subway Jam(1981)May 1, 2017 · Robert Munsch is a best-selling children's book author and storyteller. (Scholastic) March 4 is Paper Bag Princess Day, a day in honour of the classic Robert Munsch tale. To...
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