Canada’s Robert Munsch marathon aims to honour much-loved children’s author

Actor M John Kennedy will read all 75 books in a single day during Toronto's Nuit Blanche art festival

Children's author Robert Munsch has sold more than 82m copies of his books and entertained generations of readers with his tender and sharp sense of humour.

His stories have been translated into 45 languages, including 20 Indigenous languages and dialects. He still receives about 10,000 fan letters a year, and has two public schools named after him.