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Mem Fox

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Mem Fox was born on March 5, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia. She attended a drama school in London. She returned to Australia where she was a college professor. She writes children's books including Possum Magic, Night Noises, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Time for Bed, Koala Lou, Wombat Divine, vis mere Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath (co-written with Olivia Rawson), Count Goats!, and The Little Dragon. She has also written several books for adults. She has received numerous awards including the 1990 Dromkeen Medal for distinguished services to children's literature, a 1991 Advance Australia Award for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature, and a medal in the 1993 Australia Day Honours awards for services to the cultural life of Australia. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Image credit: Mem Fox with her latest book, Let's Count Goats, at the 2010 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2010

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Værker af Mem Fox

Whoever You Are (1997) 3,751 eksemplarer
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (1984) 3,596 eksemplarer
Time for Bed (1993) 3,201 eksemplarer
Possum Magic (1983) 2,202 eksemplarer
Koala Lou (1988) 2,166 eksemplarer
Where Is the Green Sheep? (2004) 1,684 eksemplarer
Hattie and the Fox (1986) 1,586 eksemplarer
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (2008) 1,414 eksemplarer
Tough Boris (1994) 1,232 eksemplarer
The Magic Hat (2002) 1,132 eksemplarer
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (2003) 1,092 eksemplarer
Shoes from Grandpa (1989) 848 eksemplarer
Night Noises (1992) 752 eksemplarer
Wombat Divine (1995) 719 eksemplarer
Sleepy Bears (1999) 564 eksemplarer
Hello Baby! (1800) 508 eksemplarer
Zoo-Looking (1995) 488 eksemplarer
Feathers and Fools (1989) 334 eksemplarer
Hunwick's Egg (2005) 290 eksemplarer
Sophie (1997) 250 eksemplarer
Boo to a Goose (1996) 245 eksemplarer
Good Night, Sleep Tight (1988) 237 eksemplarer
Guess What? (1988) 221 eksemplarer
A Particular Cow (1789) 219 eksemplarer
Let's count goats (2010) 215 eksemplarer
Tell Me About Your Day Today (2011) 147 eksemplarer
The Goblin and the Empty Chair (2009) 141 eksemplarer
Two Little Monkeys (2012) 139 eksemplarer
Where the Giant Sleeps (2007) 132 eksemplarer
A Bedtime Story (1996) 131 eksemplarer
Ducks Away! (2016) 128 eksemplarer
This and That (2017) 116 eksemplarer
The Straight Line Wonder (1987) 115 eksemplarer
Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug! (2013) 107 eksemplarer
I'm Australian too (2017) 75 eksemplarer
Baby Bedtime (2013) 68 eksemplarer
A Giraffe in the Bath (2010) 54 eksemplarer
I'm an Immigrant Too! (2018) 49 eksemplarer
Cat Dog (2021) 46 eksemplarer
The Tiny Star (2019) 39 eksemplarer
Nellie Belle (2015) 37 eksemplarer
Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again (2018) 33 eksemplarer
Roly Poly (2019) 31 eksemplarer
Early One Morning (2016) 27 eksemplarer
The little dragon (2011) 27 eksemplarer
Cat Called Kite (1985) 20 eksemplarer
With Love, at Christmas (1988) 17 eksemplarer
The Little Book of Possum Magic (2006) 16 eksemplarer
Our Dragon (2023) 13 eksemplarer
Possum Magic: Numbers (2012) 11 eksemplarer
Teaching Drama to Young Children (1990) 8 eksemplarer
Just Like That (1987) 8 eksemplarer
Possum Magic: Opposites (2014) 7 eksemplarer
Possum Magic: Colours (2016) 7 eksemplarer
The Possum Magic Cookbook (2015) 6 eksemplarer
My First Possum Magic Collection (2018) 6 eksemplarer
Possum Magic: Actions (2015) 3 eksemplarer
Thereby hangs a tale 2 eksemplarer
One World, Many Cultures (2004) 2 eksemplarer
Mem Fox Reads (1992) 1 eksemplar
Was meinst Du? (1999) 1 eksemplar
Bear Play 1 eksemplar
Classic Magic: Possum Magic and Other Stories (2015) — Forfatter; Fortæller — 1 eksemplar
Mem Fox Magic (2002) 1 eksemplar
Papers of Mem Fox 1 eksemplar
Whoever They Are 1 eksemplar

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I read this for the "A Character Who Is A Senior" part of my 2020 reading challenge. Simply illustrated, it was a touching story of a child collecting memories to help his elderly friend.
 
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Linyarai | 210 andre anmeldelser | Mar 6, 2024 |
This book is appropriate for primary readers.
This book is about all of the different people who reside in Australia and where they hail from.
This book would be useful in teaching about Rhyming and diversity.
 
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Kpasley | 6 andre anmeldelser | Feb 19, 2024 |
Mx loved this book. Got this to promote using Spanish words; may have even been our first Spanish/bilingual book. Funny cute story about a lost sheep that includes lots of adjectives. Ms has been indifferent to it so far.
 
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Mx2018 | 90 andre anmeldelser | Feb 4, 2024 |
From stardust to stardust, the narrative of a life is spun out in Australian author/illustrator team Mem Fox and Freya Blackwood's picture book, The Tiny Star. Falling to earth one night, a star takes the shape of a tiny baby, is adopted by loving parents, leads a full, long and loving life surrounded by relatives and friends, before passing away—back into stardom. Shining from the celestial heavens, the star gives comfort to the loved ones left behind...

When I first happened upon this book at my public library, I mistook it for a Christmas title for some reason. I'm trying to recall whether it had been mistakenly placed on the Christmas display—I think it had been, but couldn't swear to it. In any case, being on the hunt for new and new-to-me Christmas books, and being a devoted admirer of Freya Blackwood's artwork, I immediately snatched it up and brought it home. I was not all that dismayed to find it wasn't a Christmas story (Freya Blackwood, after all), and was intrigued by the idea of a star living out the life of a human. It brought back memories of my college astronomy class, and the time my professor informed we students that the old hippie belief in humanity being nothing but stardust was in fact scientifically sound, as every atom that goes to make up our world, and us, comes from massive stellar explosions in the cosmic prehistory of our area of the universe.

In any case, I certainly didn't approach this one with anything other than a pleasant expectation of enjoyment, given my fondness for the illustrator, and the fact that author Mem Fox is a titan in children's literature, both Australian and global. Unfortunately, despite all this, The Tiny Star was a miss for me. I found the narrative unconvincing, and even unmoving. Many other online reviewers apparently found it emotionally resonant, and quite poignant, and I can certainly see that this narrative of the seasons of life might evoke such feelings. For me however, I kept expecting there to be something more meaningful, some insight that a star living as a human would give us—something more than just the idea of a long life well-lived, and well-loved. I found myself thinking of Kurt Vonnegut's most unusual Nativity Story, Sun Moon Star, in which the creator of the universe finds himself in a baby's body, and must see the universe in a different way. Here there is none of that—no sense of how the star perceives the world and the cosmos, now that it has become flesh. I also found myself thinking of Marion Dane Bauer's magisterial The Stuff of Stars, in which the author constructs a story beginning with the birth of the universe and concluding with the birth of a baby made of stardust. There the link to stars is deeply meaningful, tying the infinitesimal smallness of a human to the great scope of the cosmos, but here it feels incidental. The human who comes from a star in this story is referred to as "it" throughout, constantly reminding the reader that "it" is a star in human shape, rather than a human (a person, not an object) made of stars. As if to emphasize the star-ness of this person, "it" returns to the heavens after death, leaving no mortal remains, and resuming its status as a star. It is a reversal of the idea of people being made from stardust, and in turn making other stardust creatures and objects, when their bodies return to their constituent elements.

Reactions will vary of course, and some will (and have) found this one meaningful, where I have not. That said, I was so repelled by this book, so unexpectedly put off by the narrative, that I might have given it a two-star rating, were it not for Blackwood's lovely illustrations, which depict a loving, diverse family. Her artwork is always worth the price of entry, so I'm not sorry to have read this one, but I don't really recommend it. Seek out the Bauer, if you are looking for a truly meaningful cosmological baby book, and the Vonnegut, if you want a story about the ties between divinity and humanity.
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AbigailAdams26 | Jan 11, 2024 |

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