Scholastic Canada celebrates its 25th anniversary of their publishing partnership with legendary children’s author Robert Munsch in 2022. To mark the celebration, Scholastic has created Munsch Mayhem – a multi-faceted countrywide salute to Canada’s favourite storyteller.
“After Robert Munsch’s job interview with the CBC’s Shelagh Rogers past slide, in which he disclosed that he has been identified with dementia, there was an extraordinary outpouring of aid and love for him,” explained Nancy Pearson, Scholastic Canada’s President of Marketing and Publishing, in a media release. “We wanted to build a instant for anyone to rejoice Robert and his publications.”
The thirty day period-lengthy functions kicked off on Canadian Impartial Bookstore Working day on April 30th, with much more than 100 impartial vendors offering a cost-free commemorative tote bag with invest in of a Scholastic Munsch ebook.
Close to 100 libraries, bookstores, and communities across the place are publishing Munsch Walks in French and English, outside pathways which will have pick Munsch books posted together the walkway for family members to take pleasure in. For additional data on the spot of the Munsch Walks, click on in this article.
Scholastic Canada is also partnering with Minimal Totally free Libraries with a donation of Robert Munsch textbooks to extra than 100 Little Free of charge Libraries throughout Canada.
A team of students from Centennial College’s Children’s Media application across established a movie, “A Really like Letter to Robert Munsch” as a course task. The video can be observed right here.
This drop, Scholastic Canada will publish Leaves¸ a Robert Munsch story set in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario, and illustrated by Munsch’s longtime collaborator, Michael Martchenko. “We have a significant selection of stories Robert wrote when he was touring and getting inspired by kids he fulfilled,” said Diane Kerner, Munsch’s editor and Scholastic Canada’s Vice-President of Publishing, in the exact same launch. “Fans can relaxation confident that Robert’s stories will proceed to be printed for a long time to appear.”
– Jennifer Cox