Hattie and the Fox
“Hattie was a big black hen. One morning she looked up and said, ‘Goodness gracious me! I can see a nose in the bushes!’ Oh, […]
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Even more advice: can you stand it? Books for young children are usually short. Young children themselves are usually short. This leads to an assumption […]
read hereJuly 19th, 2024 Silence Broken!
Tan-tan-tara! She lives! Sorry to have been so silent forso long. Mortifying. It’s the longest time between posts I’ve ever been guilty of. I’m knuckling […]
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Question: Where do your ideas come from? Answer: Real life, books, memories and feelings of the deepest kind. Question: How many books have you written? Answer: About 45-46, I […]
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Hello again! The only people who read websites like this (so I’m told) are librarians, teachers and students of children’s literature, but hey— librarians, teachers, […]
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On Being a Grandparent Mem Fox 2019 We were among the last in our group of friends to become grandparents. Our daughter, Chloë, had been […]
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Hello, once again. (Let’s hope there are many ‘once agains’!) Since I last wrote I’ve been on holiday or on vacation, depending on which kind […]
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Hello, hello! I’m still here… I often tell you that I write rarely. That’s true. But the writing does become intense and all-my-focus towards the […]
read hereSeptember 2017: spring magic turns book into coins!
September 3rd 2017 (My husband took the photo. I haven’t taken a photo since the 1960’s.) Yes, spring at last. As you see, the vines […]
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September 30th 2016 Hello, and yes, I am still here, contrary to all indications! A new addition this time is my reading of THIS AND […]
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This blog and I are about to burst, at last, into the Twittersphere. I know! After everything I’ve ranted about in the past! Why the […]
read hereEating Spiders in New Year
Happy New Year everyone! I hope I live to see the next one. I have eaten a couple of spiders, perhaps even more, in the […]
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