Munschworks 3: The Third Munsch Treasury

Valentina Cesaratto is a high-school teacher specializing in dramatic
arts and film studies.

Munschworks 3 reprints five Robert Munsch favorites. “Stephanie’s
Ponytail” is about a young girl who wants to look unique, but all the
other kids keep copying her hairstyles. After several frustrating
attempts to look different, she plays a trick on everyone and gets the
last laugh. In “Angela’s Airplane,” five-year-old Angela goes to
the airport with her Dad and loses him. While searching for her Dad she
ends up on an airplane all alone. After pushing some buttons, the plane
takes off, and this leads to several mishaps.

In “Jonathan Cleaned Up—Then He Heard a Sound,” Jonathan is
presented with a problem. As soon as his mother leaves him alone in
their clean house, people walk through the sliding wall in the living
room thinking it is a subway stop. All the traffic leaves the house
dirty. After cleaning the house several times, Jonathan approaches an
old man to help him find a solution. “Show and Tell” has Benjamin
taking his baby sister to school as his show-and-tell project, without
asking his mother. What a mistake that turns out to be when the baby
cries and cries.

The fifth story, “A Promise Is a Promise,” is co-authored by
Michael Kusugak. The Inuit tale is about Allashua, a young girl who
promises her parents that she won’t go out on the sea ice to fish. But
she goes anyway and is captured by an evil sea troll.

These five fun, wonderfully illustrated stories are highly recommended
for children of any age.