Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku. - Mem Fox
Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.
- 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… - 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…
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. - Mem Fox
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
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 peo… - 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 peo…
Books don't harm kids; they arm them. - Mem Fox
Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
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 w… - 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 w…
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve prob… - Mem Fox
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve prob…
I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be fo… - 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 fo…
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books li… - Mem Fox
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books li…
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