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Robert Munsch books in order · Robert Munsch reading order · 9 books · 1979 to 1996

Robert Munsch Books in Order and Reading Order

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Robert Munsch is one of Canada’s best-loved children’s authors, whose picture books, including The Paper Bag Princess and Love You Forever, began as stories told aloud.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. Only a selection of his many picture books is charted.

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Robert Munsch books in order

The first Picture books book is Mud Puddle (1979). There are 9 books in all, published from 1979 to 1996.

The Robert Munsch reading order: each series in publication order, with its lead characters. Where the story runs in a different order, switch to Story order. Crossover books are marked and listed under their main series. Use My books to track what you have read.

Picture books

9 books · Set in CanadaFunny books
  1. 1Mud Puddle1979With Jule AnnBuy on Amazon
  2. 2The Paper Bag Princess1980With ElizabethBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Mortimer1985With MortimerBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Thomas’ Snowsuit1985With ThomasBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Love You Forever1986Buy on Amazon
  6. 650 Below Zero1986With JasonBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Moira’s Birthday1987With MoiraBuy on Amazon
  8. 8Pigs1989With MeganBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Stephanie’s Ponytail1996With StephanieBuy on Amazon

Who appears in which book

Click a name to follow that character from book to book, or a book title to see its cast.

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Characters

9 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Leads

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