![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up, I didn’t pay much attention to my father’s work. David’s Father is about a girl named Julie who befriends a boy named David and discovers that his adoptive dad-a giant-is not nearly as scary as she expected. Robert and Ann Munsch adopted Julie Munsch when she was 5½ years old. (Photograph by May Truong) Julie Munsch, 45ĭavid’s Father (1983), Makeup Mess (2001) and Finding Christmas (2012) In the following pages, these and other real-life children who were behind Munsch’s stories share their own memories of the author, and describe how his writing-and being in his books-changed their lives. A picture of a little girl in a hot-air balloon drawn by a reader who longed to escape the everyday monotony of her family’s Chinese restaurant was the spark for Where Is Gah-Ning? The protagonist in I’m So Embarrassed! was based on a boy whose mother practically insisted that Munsch come and visit her son’s Grade 7 class. Many of those stories were inspired by children Munsch met on his travels and through correspondence with readers. ![]() “The stories will be the last thing to go,” he told Shelagh Rogers. What he did still have, he said, were his stories. He had stopped visiting kids at their schools, something he’d done throughout his career, all across North America. Munsch, the 76-year-old author of nearly 100 children’s books, told the CBC he was no longer able to write, drive or ride a bicycle. In October 2021, Robert Munsch spoke publicly for the first time about his dementia diagnosis. ![]()
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