About this book

On their way home from a field trip, the class meets a famous writer who says he is looking for a kid to put in a book. Hailey volunteers, so the writer flattens her out, folds her up, and stuffs her in. But Hailey feels folded and scrunched and trapped and stuck, and asks the kids to get her out of the book. They try all kinds of things, but nothing works, until finally they have an idea &mdassh; and turn the tables on the famous writer!

Put Me in a Book! was inspired by a project that a grade two classroom in North Bay created and mailed to Robert Munsch — now they really ARE in a book!

Behind the scenes

Put Me in a Book! was inspired by a Grade 2 class that wrote a letter to Robert Munsch. He sent them back an unpublished story called “The Book” and the class created their own oversized, laminated version of the story, illustrated with photographs of the whole class and including a photocopied “Robert Munsch” mask as a stand-in for the author. Munsch loved the class’s book so much he sent it to his editor at Scholastic. But he had lost the letter that came with the book, so she set out to track down the classroom using the teacher’s name and clues that were in the photographs. At last she found Madame O’Dell at Laurentian Public School in North Bay, Ontario. Madame O’Dell and her class were thrilled to be part of their very own book.

Reviews

"...classic Munsch, in the best possible way..." — Quill & Quire

Extras

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