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Mem Fox
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Australia
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Time for Bed
by Mem Fox, Jane Dyer   4.11 avg rating — 3,011 ratings
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2012
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15 editions
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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
by Mem Fox, Julie Vivas 4.42 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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1984
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13 editions
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Possum Magic
by Mem Fox, Julie Vivas 4.07 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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published
1983
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17 editions
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury 4.25 avg rating — 785 ratings
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1979
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12 editions
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Where Is the Green Sheep?
by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek 4.13 avg rating — 867 ratings
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2004
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9 editions
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek 4.04 avg rating — 541 ratings
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2010
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10 editions
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Whoever You Are
by Mem Fox, Leslie Staub 4.16 avg rating — 414 ratings
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published
1997
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12 editions
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Koala Lou
by Mem Fox, Pamela Lofts 4.09 avg rating — 404 ratings
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8 editions
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The Magic Hat
by Mem Fox, Tricia Tusa   3.93 avg rating — 358 ratings
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2002
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Hello Baby!
by Mem Fox, Steve Jenkins 3.96 avg rating — 252 ratings
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2009
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October 2009,
Mem Fox
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? MF: Australia Africa England Marriage Motherhood Teaching Writing Reading SS: What is your motto or maxim? MF: Do it now! What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfec..." ...More
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? MF: Australia Africa England Marriage Motherhood Teaching Writing Reading SS: What is your motto or maxim? MF: Do it now! What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfec..." ...More
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“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'
Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.”
― Mem Fox, Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.”
― Mem Fox, Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
“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.”
― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
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What book is your second pick for a Caldecott honor?
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Otis by Loren Long
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