As a child, he had an imaginary friend named Bobby Smith, who was very naughty. The titles always come last when he writes books.
Munsch believes moving to Canada is why he became a storyteller: "I don't think I would have told stories at all if I had stayed in the U. When he travels, he prefers staying with local families to staying in hotels. Munsch made up Moira's Birthday , Smelly Socks and Makeup Mess on the same day in , which he calls his "best day ever for stories. He remembers dealing with depression as far back as Grade 5. The Paper Bag Princess came from complaints from the mothers at the daycare where Munsch worked.
He had been telling the kids a typical prince-and-princess story and he remembers the mothers saying , "Have you noticed there are not many princes in this stupid mining town? You should change that story. He has hundreds of unpublished stories. He joined Canada's Walk of Fame in When Munsch told the media about his problems with drug and alcohol addiction in , his children did not yet know.
He had to tell them before the interview went to press. He also did not mean to reveal it, "it just slipped out. He's been known to go back and change the text in his books when they're reprinted. He estimates Mortimer has about five different versions.
Of all his books, Munsch is most proud of Love You Forever. His stroke has made him forgetful, which is why he doesn't tour anymore. He's a Trekkie. He loves to fish, but he describes himself as a " lousy fisherman. Angela's Airplane was originally supposed to be Candy's Airplane , based on the name of the kid who inspired it, but the name was changed. Munsch felt so bad about this that he's made sure all his books use the kids' real names ever since. Mortimer was the first story he ever made up.
When Munsch gets stuck on a story, he figures out a way to get kids to yell " Noooooo! In his book Murmel Murmel Murmel , a male truck driver adopts a baby. Robert based the story on his own experience at the time, as a stay-at-home parent with his adopted son, Andrew. He has a black poodle named Guinness. His previous dog was a black poodle named Cinder.
Clebanoff in grade 2 asked me to visit. I showed the letter to the secretary because one of the jobs of secretaries is to keep weird people out of school and I wanted her to know that I was not a weird person. The secretary decided I was not weird and wanted to call Ms. Clebanoff and tell her that I was coming, but I convinced her to let me just go and knock on the door. So I went and knocked on the door of Ms. Remember you asked me to come and visit when you wrote me last year?
My name is Bob Munsch and I am from Canada and your class wrote me a letter and asked me to come and visit and I was driving by on the Ventura Freeway and I came by for a visit and do you want me to tell some stories to your class or should I go back to the Ventura Freeway and stop bothering you? Bob Munsch??? Then a really neat thing happened. Munsch, you have to visit the kindergarten. They have just finished a big letter that they started yesterday.
It is to you! The kids thought it was very nice of me to come down from Canada to pick up their letter. I still like to stay with families. When I was a prize for Scholastic USA book clubs they thought I would fly to the winning school and tell stories for an hour. Instead I called up the winning teacher and told her to choose 2 kids by lottery and I would stay with their families. And that is how I came to stay with Brittany Edwards in Georgetown, South Carolina and that is how this conversation took place:.
BOB: Both! He fell out of the back of a truck while he was trying to shoot a deer. BOB: Do you think that was a good idea? They just put the casts on him cause he was old. BOB: So how old is he? And there was Julia Muckpah who asked me to visit. That is the trip where I learned to like raw frozen caribou, which would not have happened at a hotel. In I stayed with a family in Sidney, British Columbia. They live out in the middle of the coastal rain forest and the kids happily dragged me through several kilometres of forest and swamp, which they felt was their back yard.
Their real back yard was fenced and had 4 large dogs whose job was to eat any mountain lions who happened to jump the fence. When we climbed it, there in clear view, was the fenced back yard of their house. I told Jon, age 7, that it seemed there was a shorter way to Mt. Which is the story of my life and yours too. I sometimes make up stories on air planes.
I made up a story and then I introduced myself to her mother and asked if I could tell the story. The mom said it was OK so I told Timena the story. You may help us to build the dating records for Robert Munsch! You may read full biography about Robert Munsch from Wikipedia.
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