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  <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after.

Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children.

Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time.

Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (1990).]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Time for Bed]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Jane Dyer]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/976604]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>346</ratings_count>
  <published>1993</published>  
  
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        <book id="153168">
  <title><![CDATA[Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Julie Vivas]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1469151]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
  <published>1984</published>  
  
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        <book id="977817">
  <title><![CDATA[Possum Magic (Voyager Books)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Julie Vivas]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1469165]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>202</ratings_count>
  <published>1983</published>  
  
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        <book id="3124179">
  <title><![CDATA[Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Helen Oxenbury]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.40</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>181</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="316571">
  <title><![CDATA[Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>179</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Where Is the Green Sheep?]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Judy Horacek]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>142</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="153166">
  <title><![CDATA[Koala Lou]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Pamela Lofts]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>140</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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        <book id="153165">
  <title><![CDATA[Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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        <book id="291430">
  <title><![CDATA[The Magic Hat]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.99</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>84</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="316569">
  <title><![CDATA[Tough Boris]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mem Fox]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>78</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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