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Top 20 Mem Fox Quotes (2025 Update)

Mem Fox Quote: “Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.”

1. “Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.”

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Mem Fox Quote: “Reading aloud and talking about what we’re reading sharpens children’s brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.”

2. “Reading aloud and talking about what we’re reading sharpens children’s brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.”

Mem Fox Quote: “The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.”

3. “The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.”

Mem Fox Quote: “The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud – it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

4. “The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud – it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

Mem Fox Quote: “When I say to a parent, “read to a child”, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

5. “When I say to a parent, “read to a child”, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

Mem Fox Quote: “The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.”

6. “The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.”

Mem Fox Quote: “Books don’t harm kids; they arm them.”

7. “Books don’t harm kids; they arm them.”

Mem Fox Quote: “Writing a picture book is like writing ‘War and Peace’ in Haiku.”

8. “Writing a picture book is like writing ‘War and Peace’ in Haiku.”

Mem Fox Quote: “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 writers you teach.”

9. “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 writers you teach.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn’t feel different, I didn’t notice the color of their skin, I didn’t notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.”

10. “I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn’t feel different, I didn’t notice the color of their skin, I didn’t notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

11. “I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

Mem Fox Quote: “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 it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.”

12. “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 it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.”

Mem Fox Quote: “As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.”

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

Mem Fox Quote: “I don’t know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.”

14. “I don’t know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I don’t go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.”

15. “I don’t go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine – so, so gorgeous.”

16. “I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine – so, so gorgeous.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I have very little patience with children.”

17. “I have very little patience with children.”

Mem Fox Quote: “Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.”

18. “Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.”

Mem Fox Quote: “My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.”

19. “My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.”

Mem Fox Quote: “My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.”

20. “My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.”

Mem Fox Quote: “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 people. It’s the best fun in the world.”

21. “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 people. It’s the best fun in the world.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that’s missing the point.”

22. “I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that’s missing the point.”

Mem Fox Quote: “I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.”

23. “I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.”

Mem Fox Quote: “DO NOT attempt to bring up other people’s children through your text.”

24. “DO NOT attempt to bring up other people’s children through your text.”

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