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.

— Mem Fox

Mem Fox Quotes

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

— Mem Fox

Books don’t harm kids; they arm them.

— Mem Fox

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

— Mem Fox

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

— Mem Fox

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

— Mem Fox

I don’t go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

— Mem Fox

You’re not lonely when you’re teaching, you’re not quiet, you’re laughing most of the time, you’re having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It’s the best fun in the world.

— Mem Fox

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn’t feel different, I didn’t notice the color of their skin, I didn’t notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

— Mem Fox

I don’t know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

— Mem Fox

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine – so, so gorgeous.

— Mem Fox

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

— Mem Fox

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people’s children through your text.

— Mem Fox

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

— Mem Fox

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that’s missing the point.

— Mem Fox

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

— Mem Fox

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

— Mem Fox

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

— Mem Fox

Writing a picture book is like writing ‘War and Peace’ in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

I have very little patience with children.

— Mem Fox
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