I didn't think of it as a job, but just a neat thing to do. I worked in an orphanage on the weekends, and it was there that I discovered that I likeworking with little kids and telling stories to them. When I was a young adult, I was studying to be a Catholic priest. ROBERT MUNSCH: I wasn't a good writer in school, and I had trouble spelling, so I didn't like to write. TEACHINGBOOKS: How did you become a writer? I thought, "My goodness, they're university students, and they kept these books." Once I was walking through the student union at the University of Western Ontario, and a girl looked up and said, "Bob Munsch?" I said, "Yes," and the students startedrunning to their rooms to get their copies of Love You Forever and Paper Bag Princess. But it is not like I'm a rock star who has no life. ROBERT MUNSCH: In the United States, you walk into a bookstore, and there are 20different books by Dr. TEACHINGBOOKS: You are one of Canada's most beloved children's authors, and your books, including Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess, have sold millions upon millions of copies. Robert Munsch, interviewed in his home in Guelph, Ontario, on April 1, 2008.
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