Mem Fox
Autor(a) de Whoever You Are
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
Séries
Obras de Mem Fox
Dear Mem Fox, I Have Read All Your Books Even the Pathetic Ones and Other Incidents in the Life of a Children's Book… (1990) 67 cópias
How to Teach Drama to Infants without Really Crying: Drama Classes for Fives to Eights (1984) 7 cópias
Tough Boris 2 cópias
Thereby hangs a tale 2 cópias
Sail Away 1 exemplar(es)
Time For Bed Bedtime 1 exemplar(es)
Whoever They Are 1 exemplar(es)
Possum Magic: Grandma's Keepsake Book 1 exemplar(es)
Leer Como Por Arte De Magia / Reading Magic: Como ensenar a tu hijo a leer en edad preescolar y otros milagros de la… (2003) 1 exemplar(es)
Bear Play 1 exemplar(es)
Papers of Mem Fox 1 exemplar(es)
Terry Denton 1 exemplar(es)
Shoes from gramdpa 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Confronting Our Discomfort: Clearing the Way for Anti-Bias in Early Childhood (2003) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 4 cópias
Possum Magic: The Musical — Original book — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Partridge, Merrion Frances
- Data de nascimento
- 1946-03-05
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Local de nascimento
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Locais de residência
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Zimbabwe
London, England, UK - Educação
- Hope Fountain mission school
- Ocupação
- children's book author
educationalist - Premiações
- Dromkeen Medal (1990)
Flinders University Chancellor's Medal
Flinders University Convocation Medal
Australian Prime Minister's Centenary Medal (2003)
Order of Australia
Membros
Resenhas
First sentence: So here is our dragon! Our dragon is little. He's almost brand-new! And his favorite thing--how I wish it weren't true--is breathing out fire wherever he goes. It comes from his mouth, and it comes from his nose! He doesn't say sorry. He doesn't know how. So his parents say firmly. "Please listen, right now."
Premise/plot: These two human parents are super-frustrated with their new dragon. (Why did they get a baby dragon if they weren't prepared to deal with a baby dragon????) In particular, they get angry that their dragon, their baby dragon, breathes fire. As they continue to try to teach him manners, how to control himself, etc, they continued to scold and express their disappointment. After the baby dragon is crying, then they decide perhaps a little comfort is not out of place. The end.
My thoughts: I did NOT like this one even slightly. Though if I had to pick something to praise about it, it would be the illustrations. I over-think picture books. It's what I do. I read a picture book and take it way too seriously. I think of dozens of questions that pull apart the book's logic and reason.
In this instance, why are two humans adopting a dragon? Isn't this sending the wrong message about adoption? I'm 99.99% certain that was not the intent. So is the dragon a stand-in for ANY new baby? And if that's the case--which the jacket flap tends to suggest--WHAT on earth is the fire supposed to correlate with???? Fire is literally a hazard--to them, to their house, to everything. And it's something they would have had to known about before bringing it into their home. So obviously they weren't thinking or planning ahead. Fire also seems as natural as breathing to a dragon...so them scolding and reprimanding the dragon until it cries seems not only counterproductive but just plain cruel. It accomplishes nothing useful and is harmful to bonding. Is the fire supposed to represent the messes baby naturally makes? that any and every baby makes? If so, it just seems weird and well, WEIRD.
I didn't like these two as parents.
The rhyming felt HORRIBLE in a forced, un-rhythmic way. Like WHY does it have to be told in rhyme like this????… (mais)
Premise/plot: These two human parents are super-frustrated with their new dragon. (Why did they get a baby dragon if they weren't prepared to deal with a baby dragon????) In particular, they get angry that their dragon, their baby dragon, breathes fire. As they continue to try to teach him manners, how to control himself, etc, they continued to scold and express their disappointment. After the baby dragon is crying, then they decide perhaps a little comfort is not out of place. The end.
My thoughts: I did NOT like this one even slightly. Though if I had to pick something to praise about it, it would be the illustrations. I over-think picture books. It's what I do. I read a picture book and take it way too seriously. I think of dozens of questions that pull apart the book's logic and reason.
In this instance, why are two humans adopting a dragon? Isn't this sending the wrong message about adoption? I'm 99.99% certain that was not the intent. So is the dragon a stand-in for ANY new baby? And if that's the case--which the jacket flap tends to suggest--WHAT on earth is the fire supposed to correlate with???? Fire is literally a hazard--to them, to their house, to everything. And it's something they would have had to known about before bringing it into their home. So obviously they weren't thinking or planning ahead. Fire also seems as natural as breathing to a dragon...so them scolding and reprimanding the dragon until it cries seems not only counterproductive but just plain cruel. It accomplishes nothing useful and is harmful to bonding. Is the fire supposed to represent the messes baby naturally makes? that any and every baby makes? If so, it just seems weird and well, WEIRD.
I didn't like these two as parents.
The rhyming felt HORRIBLE in a forced, un-rhythmic way. Like WHY does it have to be told in rhyme like this????… (mais)
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- Membros
- 31,033
- Popularidade
- #637
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 1,393
- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
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