
I can only imagine what the adults around her thought. This is what you are doing.” She got down on the floor and began to throw the same tantrum. She looked at him and said, “I want you to see what you look like. I had a friend who told the story of her son threw a tantrum in line to pay about something he wanted in front of all these people. I felt lucky to make it out alive with my life. My word, it’s a place of horrors to go to with a young kid. Kids fighting each other for who gets what, screaming they want this or that and crying when told no. Then I went shopping with my niece and nephew and experienced this phenomenon from the other side. It was easy to be demanding with everything one sees there. I remember going to the grocery story with my parents and begging for this food or that food with all the bright colors.

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. Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
