Mem Fox

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel,…

— Mem Fox

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

— Mem Fox

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved…

— Mem Fox

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

— Mem Fox

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

— Mem Fox

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

— Mem Fox

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

— Mem Fox

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will…

— Mem Fox

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four…

— Mem Fox

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with…

— Mem Fox

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week,…

— Mem Fox

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

— Mem Fox

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off…

— Mem Fox

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised…

— Mem Fox

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to…

— Mem Fox

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can…

— Mem Fox

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that…

— Mem Fox

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it…

— Mem Fox

“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also…

— Mem Fox

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so…

— Mem Fox

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every…

— Mem Fox

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve…

— Mem Fox

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

— Mem Fox