![]() ![]() Munsch started telling stories to his preschoolers in 1972. Out I wanted to do was: work in daycare.” Career Highlights As he once explained, “when I left the Jesuits, I decided to work in daycare for a year till I figured out what I wanted to do and what I figured He worked part-time at nursery schools and daycare centres, and after leaving the Jesuits he completed a master’s degree in Child Studies at Tufts University. During that time, he also earned a BA in History at Fordham University and an MA in Anthropology at Boston University. Munsch spent seven years in seminary school preparing to become a Jesuit priest. Nobody thought that was very important, including me.” Education and Early Career Funny poems, silly poems, all sorts of poems. ![]() However, all through elementary school, write poetry. “She may be right,īut I figure that I act like a very mature six-year-old.” He has also admitted that, “I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success. “My mother says I never grew up and still act like I was six years old,” he once said. By his own admission, he was a terrible student and a perpetual child. Robert Munsch grew up the fourth of nine children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ![]() Robert Munsch at Family Literacy Day in 2011. ![]()
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She is unpacking boxes at home when all of a sudden she disappears, and fall into the 1800s of the Pre-Civil War South. ![]() She is one of my favorite writers because the worlds she creates are vivid and timely, even though all of her published works are in our past. ![]() She is the first writer in this genre to receive the McAuthor Foundation “Genius” grant. My last book hangover came from Octavia Butler's most notable work about time travel, family ancestry, and sacrifice, Kindred.īutler is known throughout the science fiction world as the Dame of Science Fiction. It changes the way you exist in the world even though the world is exactly the same. Have you ever had a book hangover? It's when you finish a book and it leaves such an intense mark on your life that you are a bit unfocused and unable to continue on with your day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not terrible, but definitely the weakest in my opinion.ġ4) Skulduggery Pleasant: Midnight - what can I say about Midnight? 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