Spend A Day With Robert Munsch

ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation is starting its annual Munsch at Home Contest. If you like to write, you can write a 250-word story and submit it online at www.familyliteracyday.ca for your chance to have a visit from Robert Munsch. The winner will be chosen through interest and creativity and the winner will be paid a visit by the author in January 2010 for a personal reading of their story and a public reading at a local public library, school or literacy organization.

"Being able to read and write is like being able to unfold your life from
an envelope and unfolding a world of possibilities. You can make your own
world by the books you read – and write," says Robert Munsch. "As the
Honorary Chair of Family Literacy Day, I help spread the word about the
importance of everyone in Canada being able to read, write and understand
math."

The Munsch at Home contest is used, in part, to help encourage Canadians to participate in Family Literacy Day on January 27, 2010. Family Literacy Day was developed by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation and Honda Canada to celebrate parents and children reading and learning together. Canadians are encouraged to spend at least 15 minutes enjoying a learning activity every day.

To enter the Munsch at Home Contest, visit www.FamilyLiteracyDay.ca for rules and regulations. Applications must be received by ABC CANADA no later than 5 p.m. EST on December 11, 2009.