![]() ![]() Little Bookroom will be our bookseller for this event. She’ll tell us, too, why encouraging us all to read aloud has been such an important part of her work. But at the auditions, the first part goes to someone else. ![]() He's wanted to be in it for as long as he can remember. Wombat loves everything about Christmas-especially the Nativity play. The Tiny Star is about life and death, and it’s told in an unmistakably tender and lyrical voice – the singular voice of Mem Fox – with illustrations by the award-winning Freya Blackwood.ÂĪt this very special event hosted by Michael Williams in October, Fox will discuss her stories and her career. 22.56 1 Used from 11.74 13 New from 17.51. Her new book, too, broaches a difficult topic with great wisdom and sensitivity. Through her books, Fox has also helped young readers grapple with difficult topics – perhaps most famously with Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. She’s charmed generations of readers with stories of Australian children and animals, including Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Baby Bedtime, Wombat Divine and Where is the Green Sheep? In the intervening years, Fox has somehow managed an academic career as a literacy expert, while writing 40 more books. More than 35 years after her first book, Possum Magic, was published, it is still printed in hardback, with its iconic original illustrations by Julie Vivas. Mem Fox is a legend of Australian children’s literature. ![]()
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