The 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 […]
read hereThe Folly of Jolly Old Phonics
A phonics tale of three children(with morals for teachers of reading) © Mem Fox 2008 This piece was presented at a conference of Auckland principals in […]
read hereFlashing screens or turning pages?
Winning The War Between Books And Television (I wrote this speech—which later became a chapter in Reading Magic—in the early nineties, before the invention of […]
read hereBooks for babies under one year old
I had a query from a new mother in Australia in 2010 about books for small babies. I thought it might be sensible to show […]
read hereMust-have classics
For children aged from birth to four The world and I could argue forever about what’s left off this list. Hundreds of other magnificent books […]
read hereTen 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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If you’ve read anything about me for the last thirty years, or heard me speak, you’ll know that my passion is encouraging parents to read […]
read hereIf I were queen of the world
A Talk For Parents On Teaching Children How To Read Before School If I were the queen of the world, teachers wouldn’t have to teach […]
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