Ten read-aloud commandments
Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth! Read at least three stories a day: it may be the […]
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Section 1 (Click the “play” buttons to hear the text read aloud.) An American father once said to me: “So how do you do this […]
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Same day: Feb 6th ’23 Hello, yet again. This is an incredibly speedy return from my last update. It must be a record. Anyway, people […]
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Download Images Mem Fox was born in Melbourne in 1946. She grew up in Africa, went to drama school in England in the mid-sixties, and […]
read hereChristmas 2016
Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates Christmas, anywhere in the world! And a very happy day off for those who don’t. I’ve spent some time […]
read hereShould we teach writing well or badly?
© Mem Fox The Donald Graves Memorial Speech Australian Literacy Educators convention, July 2012 Once upon a time—in 1992—I found myself in Donald Graves’ house […]
read hereIf Wishes were Horses by Mem Fox
Keynote for Geelong 2015 Abstract: We cannot expect the children in our classes to write anything half-decent unless they have something half-decent in heads to […]
read hereThe short road to happiness and the long road to failure
why reading aloud to our children changes their entire life’s journey Thank you very much for that kind introduction and for the invitation to […]
read hereParent Talk May 2013
If you knew anything about me at all before today it’s probably one of two things: that I wrote Possum Magic; and I race around […]
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I come from a long line of preachers and teachers on my mother’s side of the family; and atheists, teachers and journalists on the other […]
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Possum Magic Turns 33 Okay, people, it’s Possum Magic‘s 33rd birthday today (31st March 2016) so let’s kick-start some life into this website! This is the latest […]
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