The Sandcastle Contest
by Robert Munsch
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"When Matthew enters a contest at the beach, he builds an amazing, incredible, unbelievable sand castle!"--Cover back.Tags
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The Sand Castle Contest was a book about a young boy named Matthew. He and his family went to the beach on vacation during a hot summer afternoon. Matthew wanted to take his sand box to the beach, however his mom told him that the beach had sand and that he could play all he wanted with an endless amount of sand. When Matthew got to the beach he entered a sand castle contest in which he won. His sand castle was so real looking that it fooled the judges. The judges thought that it was a real house and ordered Matthew to remove it from the beach. Eventually the sand castle fell on top of the judges, and they declared him the winner.
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Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 11, 1945. He received an undergraduate degree in history and a master's degree in anthropology. While studying to be a Jesuit priest, he worked part-time at an orphanage. He decided he liked working with children and left the Jesuits after 7 years to work in a daycare center. He studied show more for a year at the Elliot Pearson School of Child Studies at Tufts University. He ended up at a lab preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario and eventually became a Canadian citizen. While working at a daycare center and telling stories to children, he realized that storytelling was what he loved to do and eventually he started writing the stories down. His first published title was Mud Puddle. He has written over 50 books including Love You Forever, Mortimer, Angela's Airplane, Andrew's Loose Tooth, Stephanie's Ponytail, Moira's Birthday, and Put Me in a Book. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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