Mem Fox

Mem Fox ( born March 5, 1946 as Merrion Partridge in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian writer and educationalist who was primarily known for numerous children's books.

Biography

Merrion Partridge in 1946 in Melbourne, the daughter of missionaries Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and Nancy Partridge to the world. Shortly after birth, her family moved from Melbourne to Hope Fountain in Zimbabwe for. 1965 meme went to London and studied drama there and met the English teacher Malcolm Fox, whom she married in 1969. A year later she and her husband went to Adelaide to supply her grandfather there.

In Adelaide, Fox began to study children's literature in the 1970s at Flinders University. One of their papers, the story Hush the Invisible Mouse, later developed her first children's book Possum Magic. Possum Magic was initially rejected by 9 publishers and finally published in 1983 by Omnibus Books, after Fox on behalf of the publisher, the mouse through a typical Australian animal, an opossum, replaced. To date, it has more than 3 million copies sold, the most successful children's book in Australia. This was followed by more than 30 other children's books.

Besides her work as a writer Mem Fox taught at Flinders University in literature and pedagogy and dealt primarily with the reading development of children. In 1996 she gave up her spot on as an assistant professor and has worked as a consultant for national and international projects on literacy.

On Australia Day 1993 Fox was appointed on the basis of their merits for the Australian Children's Literature for " Fellow of the Australian Order " (English Member of the Order of Australia ). In 2003 she was the Prime Minister's Centenary of Federation medal awarded for their public services.

Fox's daughter is the Australian journalist and politician Chloe Fox.

Controversies

Fox's 1988 erschienes book Guess what?, Where it turns out in the end that is described old woman is a witch, was from 1990 to 2000 according to the American Library Association to the 100 books ( number 66 ), the most frequently restriction of public availability was required, since the book had suspected occult hint and contained a positive assessment of witchcraft.

2008 Mem Fox caused a stir when she compared the daily care of young children in nurseries with the kennel of dogs.

Children's Books

  • Tell Me About Your Day Today in 2012
  • Hello Baby! 2009
  • Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes 2008
  • Where The Giant Sleeps 2007
  • A Particular Cow 2006
  • Hunwick 's Egg 2005
  • Where Is The Green Sheep? 2004
  • The Magic Hat 2002
  • Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! 2000
  • Sleepy Bears 1999
  • Whoever You Are 1998
  • Boo to a Goose 1996
  • Wombat Divine 1995
  • Tough Boris 1994
  • Time for Bed 1993
  • Memories in 1992
  • Sophie 1989
  • Shoes from Grandpa in 1989
  • Feathers and Fools 1989
  • Night Noises 1989
  • Koala Lou 1988
  • Guess what? 1988
  • Good Night Sleep Tight 1988
  • A Bedtime Story 1987
  • The Straight Line Wonder 1987
  • Sail Away: The Ballad of Skip and Nell 1986
  • Just Like That 1986
  • Hattie and the Fox 1986
  • Arabella, the Smallest Girl in the World 1986
  • Zoo -Looking 1986
  • A Cat called Kite 1985
  • Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 1984
  • Possum Magic 1983
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