You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own … - Mem Fox

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I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Mem Fox

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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