Children’s author Robert Munsch has arranged to donate his papers and archives, including a career’s worth of fan mail to which he diligently responded, to the Guelph Public Library.

The Munsch archive will be made available for research and display at the Ontario city’s new Central Library, planned for a new development at St. George’s Square, the main downtown intersection.

Munsch, 80, has lived in Guelph most of his life since moving there in 1975 to work at the University of Guelph’s Department of Family Studies laboratory preschool. A former Jesuit trainee, he was a daycare worker who became arguably the greatest living children’s author, a bedtime favourite beloved for The Paper Bag Princess, Mortimer, and Love You Forever.

He has been ill for several years with progressive dement

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