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

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

- Mem Fox

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

- 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…

- Mem Fox

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Mem Fox