Children’s author Robert Munsch is donating his stash of story drafts, publisher notes and fan letters to the Guelph Public Library.

The southwestern Ontario library says the collection will offer a rare glimpse into Munsch’s decades-long career, during which he penned bedtime classics including “The Paperbag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and “Mortimer.”

The Munsch family says the library has been a large part of their lives, recalling that the author would take his young kids there every week to pick out new books.

Library CEO Dan Atkins says the collection will be a key part of a new Central Library currently under construction and set to open in late 2026 or early 2027.

Atkins says the library reached out last year to the Munsch family, and that they were immediately receptive to do

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