About this book

Anna loves to climb, even if she’s not always successful. What’s more, she’s impossible to stop!

Up, up, up she goes, to the very top of the enormous tree in her yard. “Be careful!” says her mother. “Come down!” says her father.

But getting Anna down is not as easy as it looks. Time for mom and dad to climb the tree . . .

In this fun story, kids will delight in the repetitive, silly wordplay, and the curious, unstoppable Anna, who is always several steps ahead of her parents!

Behind the scenes

Up, Up, Down started in 1975 as a finger play that Robert Munsch used with children in daycare. He said: "UP-UP-UP-UP-UP-UP-FALL DOWN," while he raised his hands and then fell down. The kids imitated him and loved the game. He kept telling it and changing it, and slowly it turned into a story that also worked with older kids. The last change was adding "I'm the King of the Castle." Anna lived nearby and was a climbing sort of kid. By the time the story finally became a book, Anna was on her college basketball team and really was going up and down a lot!

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