About the Author

Robert Munsch is one of North America's best-selling children's authors. His books are staples of any child's library. All together they have sold over 30 million copies, and have been translated into over a dozen languages.

"I got into it backwards!" is Munsch's reply to questions about how he became a children's author. That's because he makes up most of his stories on the spot, and tells them over and over before he writes them down. Munsch is bursting with ideas -- though he says it sometimes takes him years to get a good story.

About the Book
This thick volume contains five of Munsch's best loved stories. The Paper Bag Princess, The Fire Station, I Have to Go!, David's Father, and Thomas' Snowsuit are reissued here in a slightly larger format than the original books. Imagine that your father is a really scary giant, or that your parents do not recognize you because you are so dirty, or that a dragon has smashed your castle and burned all your clothes with his fiery breath, or that your mother buys you an ugly brown snowsuit and makes you wear it to school, or that every time you get your snowsuit on (the one with five zippers, ten buckles and 17 snaps), you have to go pee. Welcome to Munsch's silly world. His stories have a wonderful read-aloud quality that will delight a whole new generation of children.