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Mem Fox
Born
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
March 05, 1946
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Time for Bed
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published
1993
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72 editions
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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
by
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published
1984
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61 editions
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Possum Magic
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published
1983
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52 editions
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Where Is the Green Sheep?
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published
2004
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41 editions
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
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published
2008
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50 editions
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Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Books)
by
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published
1997
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49 editions
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
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published
2001
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38 editions
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Koala Lou
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published
1988
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40 editions
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The Magic Hat
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published
2002
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14 editions
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Hello Baby!
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published
2009
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17 editions
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“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'
Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.”
― Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.”
― Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
“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 alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”
― Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
― Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
“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.”
― Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
― Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
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What book is your second pick for a Caldecott honor?
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Otis by Loren Long
15 total votes
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