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Mem Fox

Mem Fox. Mem Fox Author Study. Biographical Info. Born March 5, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia 6 months old - moved to Rhodesia, Africa with her missionary parents (now called Zimbabwe) Spoke their local language, Ndebele, better than English Loved her first school experience

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Mem Fox

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  1. Mem Fox Mem Fox Author Study

  2. Biographical Info. • Born March 5, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia • 6 months old - moved to Rhodesia, Africa with her missionary parents (now called Zimbabwe) • Spoke their local language, Ndebele, better than English • Loved her first school experience • Learned to write by using her finger to draw the letters in the “red earth”

  3. Biographical Info.(cont.) • Lived in all black community • Didn’t see herself as different until she was 5 • Wrote her first book at 10 years old • Moved to London to study drama at 19 years old • Liked writing better than acting so she moved back to Australia - 1970

  4. Biographical Info.(cont.) • Married husband - Malcolm • Had daughter Chloe • Became professor in Literary Studies at Finders University • Teacher by day, writer by night and weekend

  5. First Book • Hush, the Invisible Mouse • Inspired by daughter because she did not have any books to help her identify as an Australian • Tried and tried to get published • Rewrote story 23 times • Took 5 years and 9 rejections to get published • Had to change mouse to possum and called book “Possum Magic” Interesting Irony: best selling children’s book in history of Australia

  6. Bibliography • *book list* • 35 children’s books • 5 nonfiction adult books

  7. Philosophy • “Emotion is to picture books as flour is to bread” - Mem Fox

  8. Philosophy • “If we don’t laugh, gasp, block our ears, sigh, vomit, giggle, curl our toes, sympathize, feel pain, weep, or shiver during the reading of a picture book, then surely the writer has wasted our time, our money, and our precious trees.” - Mem Fox

  9. Use of Language • Alliteration • Simile • Onomatopeia • Real life - easily relatable situations

  10. Possum Magic - 1983 • Story Behind Book: • Theme:

  11. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - 1984 • Story Behind Book: • Theme:

  12. Hattie and the Fox - 1986 • Story Behind Book: • Theme:

  13. Night Noises - 1989 • Story Behind Book: • Theme:

  14. Koala Lou - 1988 • Mem Fox’s Favorite Book • 2 years, 49 drafts to write it • Story Behind Book: • Theme:

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