Canada’s Robert Munsch marathon aims to honour much-loved children’s author

M John Kennedy: ‘The plan is to just go straight through, from book to book to book. I’ve given myself a couple of breaks for food. But we’ll see.’ Photograph: Dahlia Katz

Children’s author Robert Munsch has sold more than 82m copies of his books and entertained generations of readers with his tender and sharp sense of humour.

His stories have been translated into 45 languages, including 20 Indigenous languages and dialects. He still receives about 10,000 fan letters a year, and has two public schools named after him.