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 Munsch, Robert
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be. This is definitely the most tender and touching children's book ever! He wrote the book after he and his wife had two stillborn babies, and the book is dedicated to them.
He was a giant. That's why he needed a spoon as big as a shovel, a fork as bog as a pitchfork, and a knife as big as a flagpole! Robert Munsch created this story for his own adopted daughter Julie, who wanted a story about a girl who was afraid to meet new people, and a dad who didn't look like his adopted son. I always thought there should be a story about his hairy, scary grandmother too!
Snowsuit. In "Thomas's Snowsuit", he refused to wear that ugly snowsuit - and his mother, teacher and principal try to take Thomas in one hand, the snowsuit in the other, and stick them both together, with hilarious results!
Pigs. Megan starts out convinced those pigs are pretty dumb when they just stand there "like lumps on a bump" - but after a chaotic day she realizes they might not be so dumb after all!
| In "Angela's Airplane", five year old Angela's father got lost at the airport, so she went looking for him on board an empty plane and wondered if she should try pressing the buttons. Did she actually fly the plane? | Robert Munsch Stories and Characters
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yes. After pressing a few buttons, the airplane took off and the air traffic controller was quite surprised to learn a little girl was at the controls! They talked her down, the airplane smashed into a million pieces, but Angela was unhurt. Her father made her promise never to fly an airplane ever again, and she kept her promise.... at least for awhile!
Andrew, Julie, Tyya. Robert Munsch's three children are Andrew, Julie, and Tyya. He created some stories especially for them, and other stories for other children he met.
| Robert Munsch wrote a delightfully different fairy tale, with a decidedly post-feminist bent, called "The Paper Bag Princess". How does the story end? | Robert Munsch Stories and Characters
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Elizabeth saves Prince Ronald from the dragon, but does not marry him. Ronald complained that Elizabeth's hair is messy and she's wearing a dirty old paper bag, and told her to come back when she looked like a real princess. (That's gratitude for you!) Elizabeth told Ronald he may look like a prince but he is a bum - and they don't get married after all!
| In another story that was written to deal with adoption, a little girl named Robin found a baby in her sandbox and tried to find an adult who would take care of it. What is the title of the book? | Robert Munsch Stories and Characters
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Murmel Murmel Murmel. All the baby could say was "Murmel Murmel Murmel!" Robin had no luck finding someone to take care of it. Eventually Robin found a truck driver who was looking for a baby, and he happily takes the baby home with him, leaving his truck behind. This story was written when Robert Munsch and his wife were in the process of adopting their own first child, and Robin was a little girl who lived next door.
Super indelible never come off till you're dead and maybe even later colouring markers. Bridgid's mother panicked and called the doctor, who gave Bridgid a pill and sent her to take a bath. The marker came off, but Bridgid turned invisible! She had to colour herself all over with markers until she was her regular colour again.
His baby sister. None of the adults at school seemed to know what to do with a crying baby, so they called the doctor and Ben phoned his Mom. While Ben and his Mom took the baby home, the doctor prepared to give the principal a big needle, and he was the one who ended up crying!
| In "Something Good", Tyya's father got fed up with her running around the grocery store and asking for sugary junk food, so he told her to stay where she was and don't move. She was so still that people thought she was a doll and tried to buy her. A clerk even put a price tag on her nose. How much did she "cost"? | Robert Munsch Stories and Characters
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$29.95. When Tyya's Dad found her and they went to leave the store, the cashier told them he had to pay for her because "If it's got a tag, you've got to!" He eventually did, and Tyya was happy that her Dad finally bought "something good".
| "Jonathan Cleaned Up And Then He Heard a Sound" is a quirky story about a boy whose apartment kept getting messed up while his mother was out. Why did it keep getting messed up? | Robert Munsch Stories and Characters
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The apartment was a subway station and passengers kept coming out of the walls. Jonathan did not like having a subway station in his apartment, so he took his concerns to City Hall, where of course everyone was on lunch all the time. He eventually worked out a deal with a mysterious little old man inside the computer, with an ending straight out of the "ironic punishments" department.
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