Mem Fox Quotes

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• 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…
• The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
• 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…
• Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re…
• I have very little patience with children.
• 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…
• If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the…
• If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or…
• As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
• Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
• I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
• I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
• I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so,…
• I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a…
• 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 young people. It's…
• Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

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