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
children educational reading
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
children reading medicine
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
children reading talking
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
children book reading
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
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.