He discovered his love of working with children after stints in an orphanage and daycare centre. Munsch spent his early years in the United States, where he attended university and studied to become a Jesuit priest. Still, he released two previously unpublished books this year. So it’s been really whittling away on who I thought I was,” Munsch told CBC News. “I can’t drive, I can’t ride a bicycle, I can’t write.
The Paper Bag Princess, which he wrote six year earlier, has sold more than 7m copies and been lauded as a feminist take on the gender archetypes of children’s stories.īut last October, Munsch announced he had been forced to retire from writing books and performing after he was diagnosed with dementia.
Munsch’s most famous work, Love You Forever, which tells the story of a mother’s love for her son over the years, has sold more than 30m copies since it was first published in 1986.
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