The Magic Beans series offers an extensive collection of fiction and non-fiction texts, all available in large and small format, which have been selected as models for reading and writing. They aim to develop children's non-fiction study skills, aid in the teaching of grammar, punctuation, and knowledge about language, and enrich classroom reading materials with stories, p
The Magic Beans series offers an extensive collection of fiction and non-fiction texts, all available in large and small format, which have been selected as models for reading and writing. They aim to develop children's non-fiction study skills, aid in the teaching of grammar, punctuation, and knowledge about language, and enrich classroom reading materials with stories, poems, fables, biographies, folk tales, guidebooks, plays and other non-fiction texts.
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Unknown Binding
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17 pages
Published
December 31st 1992
by Martin International
(first published January 1st 1992)
Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after.
Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in th
Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after.
Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children.
Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time.