All Mem Fox Quotes
- 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
- The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. Book
- 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… Ability
- 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… Among
- I have very little patience with children. 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… Babies
- 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… Difficulties
- 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… Able
- As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. Baby
- Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare. Babies
- I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work. All
- I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. Attraction
- I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so,… Animal
- I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa. 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… Difficult
- 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… African
- 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,… Africa
- 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… Appreciate
- 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… Best
- Books don't harm kids; they arm them. Arm
- Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku. Book
- 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. Child
- 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… Achieved