Mem Fox

Mem Fox

Mem Fox is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies (Flinders University, South Australia), and also Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author.

Her first publication, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book in Australia. It reached thirty years old this year in 2013 and is still available in hard-back. She has written many other internationally best-selling books for children including Time for Bed, Where Is The Green Sheep? and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, a copy of which was Australia’s official gift to Prince George, the new royal baby.

Mem has also written several non-fiction books for adults, including her renowned book for parents: Reading Magic. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages. She has received many civic honours and awards, and three honorary doctorates. She lives in Adelaide, South Australia, but leaps around a bit as an advocate for literacy and literature.

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Reading Magic

by Mem Fox
published 2020
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Non-fiction

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Mem’s the Word

by Mem Fox
published 1990
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Memoir