Mem Fox
Mem Fox
Mem Fox, AMis an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox is semi-retired and lives in Adelaide...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth5 March 1946
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
baby stress levels
Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
children littles
I have very little patience with children.
war book writing
Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.
children home world
I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
baby children years
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage,
mother blow doors
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
children people
DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.
mother difficult please
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
country thinking missing
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
baby tiny toes
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
baby thinking animal
I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.
children people week
I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
school color skins
I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.
wind church daily-life
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.