Playhouse
About this book
Rene’s parents are as nice as can be. When Rene asks her father to build her a playhouse, her father says “good idea,” and builds her one. When Rene tells her mother that her playhouse needs a play barn, Rene gets that too! But before long Rene wants a play cow, a play tractor, and more.
When her mother refuses to build her a play mommy and a play daddy she decides to make her own. But when she finds that her parents have replaced her with a play Rene, she quickly realizes that REAL families are the best of all.
Playhouse was inspired by a girl from Saskatchewan who wrote to Robert Munsch as part of a school assignment and sent him a picture of her giant two-story playhouse.
Behind the scenes
In 1996, Robert Munsch got a letter from a girl named Rene from Endeavour, Saskatchewan. It had a neat drawing of a playhouse on it. Munsch liked the drawing and he made up a little playhouse story and sent it to Rene. In the story she asked for strange things like a playbarn and a playtractor. Rene liked the story and sent him back a photo of her real playhouse. It was an amazing playhouse, with two storeys and a balcony and a slide!Reviews
Praise for Robert Munsch
“[Munsch is] arguably the most published Canadian author ever, in any genre.” — The Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine
“[Munsch’s] distinctive storyteller’s voice will undoubtedly continue to be echoed for years to come by parents, teachers, babysitters and whomever else young kids can get to read to them.” — The Chronicle Herald
“Munsch is now as important to a whole generation of children as any television character.” — Quill & Quire
