Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
The children’s author Robert Munsch.Credit...Haruka Sakaguchi for The New York Times
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By Katie Engelhart
In 1989, an 8-year-old named Gah-Ning Tang drew a picture of herself in a hot-air balloon and mailed it, along with a short letter, to her favorite author, Robert Munsch. Then, two weeks later, she wrote again. And then again and again: usually on the backs of used paper place mats that she scavenged from the Chinese restaurant where her parents worked in the tiny town of Hearst, Ontario.
