About this book

What goes up must come down!

Anna loves to climb. She goes up, up, UP to the very top of anything she can find — the dresser, the refrigerator... the TREE?! Can her mother and father get her down?

Up, Up, Down has always been a popular story with Robert Munsch's very youngest fans. Now he has adapted it with a new, simplified text to make it perfect for adventurous toddlers!

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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