"Writing a picture book is like writing 'War……" — Mem Fox

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

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23 Quotes by Mem Fox

Mem Fox has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and…
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,…
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time…
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…
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer,…
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come…
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…
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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