He has recovered enough that he is able to perform live, but has put his writing career on hold until he is fully recovered. In August 2008, Munsch suffered a stroke that affected his ability to speak in normal sentences. Munsch has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has also suffered from manic depression.

The Munsches have since become adoptive parents of Julie, Andrew and Tyya (see them all in Something Good!) This book was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Best selling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6,970,000 copies (not including the 1,049,000 hardcover copies). Out of the tragedy, he produced one of his best-known books, Love You Forever. Munsch's wife delivered two stillborn babies in 19. In Guelph he was encouraged to publish the many stories he made up for the children he worked with. He also taught in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Guelph as a lecturer and as an assistant professor. In 1975 he moved to Canada to work at the preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. In 1973, he received a Master of Education in Child Studies from Tufts University. He studied to become a Jesuit priest, but decided he would rather work with children after jobs at orphanages and daycare centers. He graduated from Fordham University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and from Boston University in 1971 with a Master of Arts degree in anthropology. I’m glad I wrote that story.Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Well, she had a great big screaming fit and I dragged her through the whole supermarket while she yelled and screamed and told everybody what a bad daddy I was and how mean I was.Īll the while I was pulling her through the store and saying “I’m glad I wrote that story.

The week after this book came out I was taking Tyya through the supermarket and she decided she wanted sugary marshmallow cereal. Something Good is the seventh episode of the CanadianAmerican animated anthology series, A Bunch of Munsch, after Mortimer. I am the father who always gets mad at the little kid for buying all the sugary food. The kids in it are my own kids and my wife Ann appears in the last page. That doll idea stayed in my head and eventually it turned into the story Something Good. I said to myself “Wow! Look at that little girl. I was shopping once and I noticed another little girl sitting in her mother’s cart. Something Good started with grocery shopping.Įvery Thursday I do the family food shopping.įirst I took along my son Andrew and then I took along my daughter Tyya.

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