FastSaying

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

Mem Fox

reading-books

Related Quotes

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Dr. Emmit Fox
Books and reading
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
— Mem Fox
BabiesBrainsCare
Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
— Mem Fox
BabiesChildcareHigher
I have very little patience with children.
— Mem Fox
ChildrenLittlePatience
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
AfricaAustralianBack