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Mem Fox

Autor(a) de Whoever You Are

82+ Works 31,787 Membros 1,400 Críticas 15 Favorited

About the Author

Mem Fox was born on March 5, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia. She attended a drama school in London. She returned to Australia where she was a college professor. She writes children's books including Possum Magic, Night Noises, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Time for Bed, Koala Lou, Wombat Divine, mostrar mais Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath (co-written with Olivia Rawson), Count Goats!, and The Little Dragon. She has also written several books for adults. She has received numerous awards including the 1990 Dromkeen Medal for distinguished services to children's literature, a 1991 Advance Australia Award for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature, and a medal in the 1993 Australia Day Honours awards for services to the cultural life of Australia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Mem Fox with her latest book, Let's Count Goats, at the 2010 Baltimore Book Festival. ©2010

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Obras por Mem Fox

Whoever You Are (1997) 3,751 exemplares
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (1984) 3,596 exemplares
Time for Bed (1993) 3,204 exemplares
Possum Magic (1983) 2,202 exemplares
Koala Lou (1988) 2,166 exemplares
Where Is the Green Sheep? (2004) 1,684 exemplares
Hattie and the Fox (1986) 1,586 exemplares
Tough Boris (1994) 1,232 exemplares
The Magic Hat (2002) 1,132 exemplares
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (2003) 1,092 exemplares
Shoes from Grandpa (1989) 848 exemplares
Night Noises (1992) 753 exemplares
Wombat Divine (1995) 719 exemplares
Sleepy Bears (1999) 564 exemplares
Hello Baby! (1800) 508 exemplares
Zoo-Looking (1995) 488 exemplares
Feathers and Fools (1989) 334 exemplares
Hunwick's Egg (2005) 290 exemplares
Sophie (1997) 250 exemplares
Boo to a Goose (1996) 245 exemplares
Good Night, Sleep Tight (1988) 237 exemplares
Guess What? (1988) 221 exemplares
A Particular Cow (1789) 219 exemplares
Let's count goats (2010) 215 exemplares
Tell Me About Your Day Today (2011) 147 exemplares
The Goblin and the Empty Chair (2009) 141 exemplares
Two Little Monkeys (2012) 139 exemplares
Where the Giant Sleeps (2007) 132 exemplares
A Bedtime Story (1996) 131 exemplares
Ducks Away! (2016) 128 exemplares
This and That (2017) 116 exemplares
The Straight Line Wonder (1987) 115 exemplares
Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug! (2013) 107 exemplares
I'm Australian too (2017) 75 exemplares
Baby Bedtime (2013) 68 exemplares
A Giraffe in the Bath (2010) 54 exemplares
I'm an Immigrant Too! (2018) 49 exemplares
Cat Dog (2021) 46 exemplares
The Tiny Star (2019) 39 exemplares
Nellie Belle (2015) 37 exemplares
Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again (2018) 33 exemplares
Roly Poly (2019) 31 exemplares
Early One Morning (2016) 27 exemplares
The little dragon (2011) 27 exemplares
Cat Called Kite (1985) 20 exemplares
With Love, at Christmas (1988) 17 exemplares
The Little Book of Possum Magic (2006) 16 exemplares
Our Dragon (2023) 13 exemplares
Possum Magic: Numbers (2012) 11 exemplares
Just Like That (1987) 8 exemplares
Possum Magic: Opposites (2014) 7 exemplares
Possum Magic: Colours (2016) 7 exemplares
The Possum Magic Cookbook (2015) 6 exemplares
Possum Magic: Actions (2015) 3 exemplares
Thereby hangs a tale 2 exemplares
One World, Many Cultures (2004) 2 exemplares
Mem Fox Reads (1992) 1 exemplar
Was meinst Du? (1999) 1 exemplar
Bear Play 1 exemplar
Classic Magic: Possum Magic and Other Stories (2015) — Autor; Narrador — 1 exemplar
Mem Fox Magic (2002) 1 exemplar
Papers of Mem Fox 1 exemplar
Whoever They Are 1 exemplar

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Amizade (320) Amor (202) animais (1,016) Austrália (434) Avós (146) babies (155) bedtime (472) board book (248) colors (173) counting (140) crianças (355) Cultura (130) differences (165) Diversidade (427) elderly (200) Emoção (154) Família (714) Fantasia (284) Fazenda (165) feelings (196) Ficção (956) Literatura infantojuvenil (176) Livro de bolso (126) Magia (240) Mem Fox (330) memories (284) Memória (215) multicultural (439) Natal na Alemanha (150) Ovelha (196) para crianças (415) picture (138) picture book (2,056) piratas (258) realistic fiction (349) repetition (345) Resignação (179) rhyming (319) Rima (248) Sono (153)

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I read this for the "A Character Who Is A Senior" part of my 2020 reading challenge. Simply illustrated, it was a touching story of a child collecting memories to help his elderly friend.
 
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Linyarai | 210 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
This book is appropriate for primary readers.
This book is about all of the different people who reside in Australia and where they hail from.
This book would be useful in teaching about Rhyming and diversity.
 
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Kpasley | 6 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
Mx loved this book. Got this to promote using Spanish words; may have even been our first Spanish/bilingual book. Funny cute story about a lost sheep that includes lots of adjectives. Ms has been indifferent to it so far.
 
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Mx2018 | 90 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |
From stardust to stardust, the narrative of a life is spun out in Australian author/illustrator team Mem Fox and Freya Blackwood's picture book, The Tiny Star. Falling to earth one night, a star takes the shape of a tiny baby, is adopted by loving parents, leads a full, long and loving life surrounded by relatives and friends, before passing away—back into stardom. Shining from the celestial heavens, the star gives comfort to the loved ones left behind...

When I first happened upon this book at my public library, I mistook it for a Christmas title for some reason. I'm trying to recall whether it had been mistakenly placed on the Christmas display—I think it had been, but couldn't swear to it. In any case, being on the hunt for new and new-to-me Christmas books, and being a devoted admirer of Freya Blackwood's artwork, I immediately snatched it up and brought it home. I was not all that dismayed to find it wasn't a Christmas story (Freya Blackwood, after all), and was intrigued by the idea of a star living out the life of a human. It brought back memories of my college astronomy class, and the time my professor informed we students that the old hippie belief in humanity being nothing but stardust was in fact scientifically sound, as every atom that goes to make up our world, and us, comes from massive stellar explosions in the cosmic prehistory of our area of the universe.

In any case, I certainly didn't approach this one with anything other than a pleasant expectation of enjoyment, given my fondness for the illustrator, and the fact that author Mem Fox is a titan in children's literature, both Australian and global. Unfortunately, despite all this, The Tiny Star was a miss for me. I found the narrative unconvincing, and even unmoving. Many other online reviewers apparently found it emotionally resonant, and quite poignant, and I can certainly see that this narrative of the seasons of life might evoke such feelings. For me however, I kept expecting there to be something more meaningful, some insight that a star living as a human would give us—something more than just the idea of a long life well-lived, and well-loved. I found myself thinking of Kurt Vonnegut's most unusual Nativity Story, Sun Moon Star, in which the creator of the universe finds himself in a baby's body, and must see the universe in a different way. Here there is none of that—no sense of how the star perceives the world and the cosmos, now that it has become flesh. I also found myself thinking of Marion Dane Bauer's magisterial The Stuff of Stars, in which the author constructs a story beginning with the birth of the universe and concluding with the birth of a baby made of stardust. There the link to stars is deeply meaningful, tying the infinitesimal smallness of a human to the great scope of the cosmos, but here it feels incidental. The human who comes from a star in this story is referred to as "it" throughout, constantly reminding the reader that "it" is a star in human shape, rather than a human (a person, not an object) made of stars. As if to emphasize the star-ness of this person, "it" returns to the heavens after death, leaving no mortal remains, and resuming its status as a star. It is a reversal of the idea of people being made from stardust, and in turn making other stardust creatures and objects, when their bodies return to their constituent elements.

Reactions will vary of course, and some will (and have) found this one meaningful, where I have not. That said, I was so repelled by this book, so unexpectedly put off by the narrative, that I might have given it a two-star rating, were it not for Blackwood's lovely illustrations, which depict a loving, diverse family. Her artwork is always worth the price of entry, so I'm not sorry to have read this one, but I don't really recommend it. Seek out the Bauer, if you are looking for a truly meaningful cosmological baby book, and the Vonnegut, if you want a story about the ties between divinity and humanity.
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AbigailAdams26 | Jan 11, 2024 |

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Obras
82
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3
Membros
31,787
Popularidade
#622
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
1,400
ISBN
728
Línguas
14
Marcado como favorito
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