Guide to Research Materials relating to Mem Fox
Reference Number: MS 53
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Table of Contents
Series AD Transcripts of Talks
Series B Articles Relating to Publications
Series E Autobiographical Notes
Summary
| Collector: | Lu Rees Archives |
| Title: | Research Materials relating to Mem Fox |
| Date Range: | 1984 - 1999 |
| Reference Number: | MS 53 |
| Repository: | The Lu Rees Archives |
| Abstract: | The collection includes Promotional Material, Awards, Articles By Author, Autobiographical Notes, Reviews, Posters, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Biographical Notes, Photographs, Articles Relating to Publications, Bibliographic Notes, Transcripts of Talks and Programs. |
Scope and Content
The collection includes Promotional Material, Awards, Articles By Author, Autobiographical Notes, Reviews, Posters, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Biographical Notes, Photographs, Articles Relating to Publications, Bibliographic Notes, Transcripts of Talks and Programs.
Organization
These materials have been collected and arranged by staff of the Lu Rees Archives.
Biographical Note
Mem Fox was born in Melbourne, but her father, grandfather, great- and great-great-grandfather were South Australian. Her parents sailed for Africa when she was seven months old, to serve as teachers with the London Missionary Society in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
After attending schools in Bulawayo she spent three years at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London, 1965-1968, where she met her future husband, Malcolm Fox. They married in 1969, and in 1970 came to Australia to live. Their daughter, Chloe, was born in 1971. Mem taught at Cabra Dominican College, and later completed a degree in Arts at Flinders University (1977) and in Education (SA CAE, Sturt, 1978 ) and a Diploma in Language Arts (1981). She began teaching at Sturt CAE in 1973, and was made (1995) Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Flinders University. She retired from teaching in 1997.
She wrote the embryonic Possum Magic (as "Hugh, The Invisible Mouse") when a mature-age student at the university. The story was rejected by publishers nine times over five years but finally, reduced from three and a half pages of single-spaced typing to one and a half pages, double-spaced, it became the best-selling children's book in Australia's history with sales of over a million. She helped set up the SA Storytellers' Guild in 1982, and performed on two storytelling series on ABC TV. Several of her readings of her own stories have been recorded on audiotape.
As well as the awards listed below Mem has won the Advance Australia Award (1990), and Children's Magazine Award (1993). She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993, awarded Flinders University Chancellor's Medal in commemoration of the Centenary of Women's Suffrage, 1994 and Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Wollongong University, 1996. Many of her childen's books have been published in the USA, and several have been translated into other languages. As well as writing for children she has also written her autobiography ( Mem's the Word ) and books and articles on teaching and writing.
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[Manuscript Item], Series [Number], Item [Number], Research Materials relating to Mem Fox, MS 53, The Lu Rees Archives.
Series List and Descriptions
Series A Articles By Author
Item A1
Title: Writing Possum Magic
Citation: Reading Time, Jul 1984.
Created: July 1984
Description:
Item A2
Title: Writing children's picture books
Citation: Lines 1, 4 (Aug 1985)
Created: August 1985
Description:
Item A3
Title: In the teeth of creation
Citation: National Times, 19-25 Jul 1985
Created: July 1985
Description:
Item A4
Title: Possums' Questions Booklet
Created: 1986
Description:
Item A5
Title: Writing picture books: The love/hate relationship
Created: February 1989
Description:
Item A6
Title: Private education v private schools
Citation: Adelaide Review, May 1989.
Created: May 1989
Description:
Item A7
Title: The Teacher disguised as writer, in hot pursuit of literacy
Citation: Language Arts, 64, 1 (Jan 1987).
Created: January 1987
Description:
Item A8
Title: The Paths of story lead but to the graves
Citation: Primary Education (May/Jun 1984): 9-11
Created: May 1984
Description:
Item A9
Title: Notes from the battlefield: Towards a theory of why people write.
Created: August 1987
Description:
Item A10
Title: The Rewarding agony: writing picture books
Citation: Primary Education (Jul/Aug 1985): 18-20.
Created: July 1985
Description:
Item A11
Title: Writing picture books: A love/hate relationship
Citation: Horn Book Magazine 66, 3 (May/Jun 1990): 288-296.
Created: May 1990
Description:
Item A12
Title: There's a coffin in my office
Citation: Language Arts, 67 (Sep 1990): 468-72.
Created: September 1990
Description:
Item A13
Title: A Measure of pleasure in language and laughter
Created: July 1990
Description:
Item A14
Title: Halt! Who goes there
Created: July 1991
Description:
Item A15
Title: Leslie
Created: August 1991
Description:
Item A16
Title: Writers as human beings(1985)
Citation: On Writing for Children': Nine papers from the annual lectures in children's literature. Kerry Mallan (ed). Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, 1991, pp 29-34.
Created: 1991
Description:
Item A17
Title: Overbooked, overweight and on the Caesar salad circuit
Citation: Weekend Australian, 4 Jul 1992, p.5 Supp.
Created: July 1992
Description:
Item A18
Title: A Special hello to my dear friends in America.
Created: n.d.
Description:
Item A19
Title: A Special hello to.......
Created: n.d.
Description:
Item A20
Title: What is a Muliticulutral Book?
Citation: Viewpoint, 3, 1 (Autumn 1995): 22 - 24.
Created: 1995
Description:
Item A21
Title: A profitable possum
Citation: The Australian Way, (Apr 1998): 48 - 51
Created: April 1998
Description:
Item A22
Title: The Power and the story: how reading aloud to children will change their lives forever
Author: Fox, Mem
Citation: Orana 38(2):4-8
Created: Jul 2002
Series AD Transcripts of Talks
Item AD1
Title: Court Old Meadow Memorial Lecture
Author: Fox, Mem
Location: Dromkeen, Riddell, Victoria
Created: February 1991
Description: 23 Feb 1991.
Series B Articles Relating to Publications
Item B1
Title: Author helps College Library celebrate Children's Book Week
Citation: Incite, 21 Sep 1984.
Created: September 1984
Description:
Item B2
Title: A Different kind of possum magic
Author: Maher, Elizabeth.
Citation: Orana 21 (May 1985): 85-86.
Created: May 1985
Description:
Item B3
Title: Possum magic at the zoo
Citation: Incite, 1985
Created: 1985
Description:
Item B4
Title: Vegemite and Pavlova Keep a Possum in one piece
Description:
Item B5
Title: Cooking for kids - with Grandma Poss
Author: Hogan, Christine.
Citation: Australian Women's Weekly (Dec 1985): 111
Created: December 1985
Description:
Item B6
Title: Book banquet
Citation: Teacher and Librarian no 79 (Sep 1985): 2-5.
Created: September 1985
Description:
Item B7
Title: The Making of a children's picture book
Citation: Classroom 6 (Jul 1986): 21-23.
Created: July 1986
Description:
Item B8
Title: Arabella
Citation: Link-up NLA Library Services for Disabled People no 40 (Sep 1986): 2.
Created: September 1986
Description:
Item B9
Title: Book has message for warmongers
Citation: The Advertiser (Adelaide), 4 Apr 1989, p 8
Created: April 1989
Description:
Item B10
Title: How Mem Fox won the day
Author: Funnell, John.
Citation: Classroom, 9,1 (Feb 1989): 19.
Created: February 1989
Description:
Item B11
Title: Bound for success: Persistence pays off for two publishers
Author: Lyle, Gwen.
Citation: Unknown source, p 13-14
Description:
Item B12
Title: Mem's the word for mesmerising kids
Author: Gascoigne, Toss.
Citation: The Mercury (Hobart), 1 Jul 1989, p 21.
Created: July 1989
Description:
Item B13
Title: Mem's visit a thrilling chapter in a tiny school's life
Author: Breen, David.
Citation: The Mercury (Hobart), 23 Jun 1989, p 5.
Created: June 1989
Description:
Item B14
Title: Mem's the word for local author
Author: Ford, Jane.
Citation: The Advertiser (Adelaide), 2 Oct 1990, p 18.
Created: October 1990
Description:
Item B15
Title: Australian author enchants all ages
Author: Aranow, Zedra Jurist.
Citation: Daily News (Springfield, Mass), Jan 1987.
Created: January 1987
Description:
Item B16
Title: Possum Magic brought to life
Author: Unknown
Citation: The Age (Melbourne), 29 Jun 1990, p 21.
Created: June 1990
Description:
Item B17
Title: Possums from page to stage
Author: Unknown
Citation: The Sunday Herald (Melbourne), 8 Jul 1990, p 28.
Created: July 1990
Description:
Item B18
Title: For what they have received, may writers be truly thankful!
Citation: ARA Today, Edition 4, 1991
Created: 1991
Description:
Item B19
Title: Little big time
Author: Unknown
Citation: Sydney Morning Herald, 20 Jul 1991, pp 32-41.
Created: July 1991
Description:
Item B20
Title: Possum joyous theatrical romp
Author: Musa, Helen.
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 5 Jul 1991
Created: July 1991
Description:
Item B21
Title: Possums work their magic
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 3 Jul 1991.
Created: July 1991
Description:
Item B22
Title: What do kids want?
Citation: Sunday Age (Melbourne), 21 Jul 1991.
Created: July 1991
Description:
Item B23
Title: Children need books true to life
Author: Pateof, Nancy.
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 6 Jun 1992.
Created: June 1992
Description:
Item B24
Title: Books in the language of children
Author: Holmstrom, David.
Citation: Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 1992, p 14.
Created: May 1992
Description:
Item B25
Title: Fair game for exhibitionists
Author: Chenery, Susan.
Citation: The Australian, 10-11 Jul 1993.
Created: July 1993
Description:
Item B26
Title: Mem Fox: Magic writer
Author: Brislan, Jill.
Citation: Orana 24,2 (May 1988): 95-102.
Created: May 1988
Description:
Item B27
Title: A love affair with reading and writing
Author: Jane Campbell
Citation: Classroom, (Mar 1998): 24 - 25.
Created: March 1998
Description:
Item B28
Title: Our Literary dinner with Mem Fox
Author: V. Van Putten
Citation: Children's Book Council of Australia (S.A.) Newsletter, 54 (May 1996): 4 - 5
Created: May 1996
Description:
Item B29
Title: A minor's masterpiece
Author: C. Baker
Citation: The Australian magazine (29 - 30 Nov 1997): 3
Created: November 1997
Description:
Item B30
Title: Crossing boundaries of fantasy, reality.
Author: S. Matthews
Citation: Sunday Times, 22 Mar 1998
Created: March 1998
Description:
Item B31
Title: Literacy basics not being taught, says writer
Author: J. Dargaville
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 30 Jul 1995, p. 1
Created: July 1995
Description:
Item B32
Title: Literacy teaching system bankrupt
Author: B. Gordon
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 30 Jul 1995, p. 1
Created: July 1995
Description:
Item B33
Title: Literacy, numeracy, and success beyond a big salary
Author: R. Bergbie
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 26 Nov 1995.
Created: November 1995
Description:
Item B34
Title: Mem's magic charms America
Author: P. Rolfe
Citation: The Bulletin, (14 Apr 1998): 68.
Created: April 1998
Description:
Item B35
Title: Possum Magic weaves its spell on new arrivals
Author: Macdonald, Emma
Citation: ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, p. 1
Created: 9 Sep 1998
Item B36
Title: More Mem magic
Author: Barnes, celia
Citation: The Australian Women's Weekly, p.72
Created: Aug 1999
Item B37
Title: Mem and us
Author: Condon, Matt
Citation: Sun Herald, Sunday Life, p.28
Created: 29 Aug 1999
Item B38
Title: The Picture Book Publisher
Author: Sheahan-Bright, Robyn
Citation: Magpies 14(4):4-9
Created: Sep 1999
Item B39
Title: An old favourite still has the magic
Author: Cerabona, Ron
Citation: ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times
Created: 4 Jun 2000
Item B40
Title: When it comes to magic, kids prove to be the best judge
Author: Robertson, Emily
Citation: ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, p.6
Created: 10 Jun 2000
Item B41
Title: [Untitled]
Citation: ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, About Town
Created: 13 Jun 2000
Item B42
Title: Spotlight on: Mem Fox
Author: Chryssides, Helen
Citation: Who, no.458, p.103
Created: 4 Dec 2000
Item B43
Title: Children's authors flush with success of toilet humour
Author: Grunwell, Rachel
Citation: The Australian, p.3
Created: 24-25 Feb 2001
Item B44
Title: Telling tales
Author: Coffey, Michelle
Citation: Who, no.494, p.63
Created: 20 Aug 2001
Series D Awards
Item D1
Title of Award: IBBY Honour Diploma.
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: Lines, 2,2 (Apr 1986).
Created: April 1986
Description:
Item D2
Title of Award: IBBY Honour Diploma
Award For: Possum Magic.
Citation: Australian Bookseller and Publisher, Feb 1986.
Created: February 1986
Description:
Item D3
Title of Award: IBBY Honour Diploma
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: Reading Time, Apr 1986.
Created: April 1986
Description:
Item D4
Title of Award: Fanfare 1990 - Picture Books.
Award For: Night Noises.
Citation: Horn Book Magazine (Mar/Apr 1990): 184
Created: March 1990
Description:
Item D5
Title of Award: Advance Australia Award and Dromkeen Medal.
Citation: Advertiser (Adelaide), 4 Feb 1991, p 3.
Created: February 1991
Description: SA author wins national award
Item D6
Title of Award: COOL Awards
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: The Chronicle (ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥), 9 Nov 1992, p 7.
Created: November 1992
Description: COOL Win for Artists.
Item D7
Title of Award: COOL Awards
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: Incite 13 (ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥), 14 Dec 1992, p14.
Created: December 1992
Description: 1992 COOL Awards Presented.
Item D8
Title of Award: Order of Australia Medal
Title: Australia Day Honours List
Citation: Sydney Morning Herald
Created: 26 Jan 1993
Item D9
Title of Award: Book Awards for Excellence in Family Issues - Education category
Citation: Campus Review, 3, 42 (Nov 1993): 11
Created: November 1993
Description:
Item D10
Title of Award: KOALA and COOL Awards 1994
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: Orana, 31, 1 (Feb 1995): 66
Created: February 1995
Description:
Item D11
Title of Award: Nominated for ABBY Award
Award For: Time for Bed
Citation: Australian Booksellers & Publisher, (Apr 1995): 16
Created: April 1995
Description:
Item D12
Title of Award: Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration
Award For: Boo to a Goose
Citation: Australian Booksellers & Publisher, (Jun 1997): 7
Created: June 1997
Description:
Item D13
Title of Award: COOL 1994 Award
Award For: Possum Magic
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 27 Oct 1994.
Created: October 1994
Description: Old is COOL, say our young book worms
Series E Autobiographical Notes
Item E1
Author: Fox, Mem
Citation: Australian Book Review (Oct 1985): p 14.
Created: October 1985
Description: Self portrait
Item E2
Author: Fox, Mem
Created: November 1991
Description: A special hello to Belle Alderman. Inside 'The writer who stopped writing'.
Item E3
Citation: Calender, 3 (Autumn 1996): 3
Created: 1996
Description: Writers on writing'
Series F Bibliographic Notes
Item F1
Author: Fox, Mem
Created: 1988
Description: Bibliography of works (3 pages) + 2 copies. One copy annotated by Mem Fox. [1988]
Item F2
Title: Fox, Mem
Author: AustLit Gateway (http://www.austlit.edu.au)
Description: Print out from database
Series G Biographical Notes
Item G1
Citation: Omnibus Books
Description: About the author
Item G2
Citation: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Plays Possum program, 6 June 1986
Created: June 1986
Description: Reprint
Item G3
Citation: Today's Woman (South Australia), May 1989
Created: May 1989
Description: Mem Fox: The story of a passionate teacher.
Item G4
Citation: Scholastic, v.2, N.Y. : Scholastic, 1993, pp. 24 - 25.; Scholastic
Created: 19993
Description: Meet the Authors and Illustrators
Item G5
Citation: Englewood, Colorando : Teacher Ideas Press, 1992. pp. 55 - 56.; Teacher Ideas Press
Created: 1992
Description: About the Author. Book people : A multicultural album
Item G6
Title: Fox, Mem
Citation: http://www.austlit.edu.au
Description: Print out from database
Series H Reviews
Item H1
Review Of: Possum Magic.
Citation: The Age (Melbourne), 21 Jul 1984.
Created: July 1984
Description:
Item H2
Review Of: Possum Magic
Citation: Family Circle, 10 Aug 1984
Created: August 1984
Description:
Item H3
Review Of: Possum Magic
Citation: Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Jul 1984.
Created: July 1984
Description:
Item H4
Review Of: Possum Magic
Citation: The Australian, 21 Jul 1984
Created: July 1984
Description:
Item H5
Review Of: Possum Magic.
Citation: Review (South Australia, School Libraries Branch), Sep 1984, p 21
Created: September 1984
Description:
Item H6
Review Of: Possum Magic
Citation: Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Jul 1984.
Created: July 1984
Description:
Item H7
Review Of: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Reviewer: Margaret Dunkle.
Citation: The Australian, 9 Mar 1985.
Created: March 1985
Description:
Item H8
Review Of: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Citation: The National Times, 19-26 Jul 1985, p. 35.
Created: July 1985
Description:
Item H9
Review Of: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Reviewer: Belle Alderman
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 1 May 1985
Created: May 1985
Description:
Item H10
Review Of: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Citation: The Sun-Herald (Sydney), 21 Jul 1985
Created: July 1985
Description:
Item H11
Review Of: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Citation: Australian Book Review, (Jul 1985)
Created: July 1985
Description:
Item H12
Review Of: Just Like That
Reviewer: June Smith.
Citation: Times on Sunday, 7 Jun 1987, p. 33.
Created: June 1987
Description:
Item H13
Review Of: Possum Magic
Reviewer: Ilene Cooper
Citation: Booklist, 1 Dec 1987.
Created: December 1987
Description:
Item H14
Review Of: Night noises.
Reviewer: John Peters.
Citation: School Library Journal, 35 (Sep 1989): 225.
Created: September 1989
Description:
Item H15
Review Of: Night noises
Reviewer: Denise Wilms
Citation: Booklist, 86, 6 (15 Nov 1989):664
Created: Nov 1989
Description:
Item H16
Review Of: Koala Lou
Reviewer: Mary Burns.
Citation: Book Magazine, 65, 6 (Nov/Dec 1989): 757-58
Created: November 1989
Description:
Item H17
Review Of: Night Noises
Reviewer: Karen Jameyson
Citation: Horn Book Magazine, 65, 6 (Nov/Dec 1989): 758.
Created: November 1989
Description:
Item H18
Review Of: Shoes from Grandpa
Reviewer: Lisa Wallace
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 10 Dec 1989, p 18.
Created: December 1989
Description:
Item H19
Review Of: Shoes from Grandpa
Reviewer: Margaret Aitken.
Citation: Age (Melbourne), 16 Dec 1989.
Created: December 1989
Description:
Item H20
Review Of: Night Noises. Stagecoach Theatre play production
Reviewer: Ann Nugent.
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 21 Mar 1990, p 28
Created: March 1990
Description:
Item H21
Review Of: Shoes from Grandpa.
Reviewer: Mary Burns
Citation: Horn Book Magazine (Mar/Apr 1990): 187.
Created: March 1990
Description:
Item H22
Review Of: Shoes from Grandpa
Reviewer: Carey Ayres
Citation: School Library Journal (Apr 1990): 89.
Created: April 1990
Description:
Item H23
Review Of: Sail Away
Reviewer: Laurie Copping
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 3 Jan 1987, p 15.
Created: January 1987
Description:
Item H24
Review Of: Koala Lou
Citation: Junior Bookshelf, 54 (Jun 1990): 126-27.
Created: June 1990
Description:
Item H25
Review Of: Guess What?
Reviewer: Ilene Cooper.
Citation: Booklist 87 (Sep 1990) : 57.
Created: September 1990
Description:
Item H26
Review Of: Guess What?
Citation: Jump! (Fall 1990)
Created: Fall 1990
Description:
Item H27
Review Of: Guess What?
Citation: Publishers Weekly, 14 Sep 1990.
Created: September 1990
Description:
Item H28
Review Of: Guess What?
Citation: Kirkus, 1 Sep 1990
Created: September 1990
Description:
Item H29
Review Of: Guess What?
Reviewer: A. Flowers.
Citation: Horn Book Magazine, Nov/Dec 1990.
Created: November 1990
Description:
Item H30
Review Of: Guess What?
Reviewer: Christine Behrmann.
Citation: School Library Journal, Nov 1990.
Created: November 1990
Description:
Item H31
Review Of: Possum Magic.
Title: Short, sweet captivation
Reviewer: Diane Beer.
Citation: The News, Jun 1986.
Created: June 1986
Description:
Item H32
Review Of: Shoes From Grandpa
Citation: Publishers Weekly, 19 Jan 1990.
Created: January 1990
Description:
Item H33
Review Of: Mem's The Word.
Title: New words from a Voice of Adelaide
Reviewer: Derek Whitelock.
Created: October 1990
Description: The Advertiser (Adelaide), 6 Oct 1990, p 160.
Item H34
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: Musical lacks book's magic
Reviewer: Barbara Hutton.
Citation: The Age (Melbourne), 12 Jul 1990, p 14.
Created: July 1990
Description:
Item H35
Review Of: Mem Fox Reads
Title: Sounds Like a Top Story.
Citation: The Herald Sun (Melbourne), 29 Jun 1991, p 53.
Created: June 1991
Description:
Item H36
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: A magical possum rings up a good tale
Reviewer: Wendy Blaxland.
Description:
Item H37
Review Of: Radical Reflections
Title: Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning and Living.
Reviewer: Cheryl Semple.
Citation: Viewpoint 1,2 (Winter 1993): 14-15.
Created: Winter 1993
Description:
Item H38
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: Possums'Magical Move to the Stage
Reviewer: Ford, Carolyn
Citation: The Herald Sun (Melbourne), 13 Jul 1993, p 43
Created: July 1993
Description:
Item H39
Review Of: Radical Reflections
Title: Passionate about words
Reviewer: Stephanie Owen Reeder.
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 5 Jun 1993, C9.
Created: June 1993
Description:
Item H40
Review Of: Boo to a Goos
Title: Preschool & Infant
Citation: Santana Children's Books Newsletter, no. 1 (Aug 1996): 2
Created: August 1996
Description:
Item H41
Review Of: Feather and Fools
Title: Holiday books for youngsters
Reviewer: Leonie Tyler
Citation: Courier Mail, 18 Nov 1989, p. 7.
Created: November 1998
Description:
Item H42
Review Of: Possum Magic, Time for Bed
Title: US publishers called to account(ants)
Reviewer: Murray Waldren
Citation: The Weekend Review, Books, 4 - 5 Jun 1994. p.6
Created: June 1994
Description:
Item H43
Review Of: Tough Boris
Citation: Horn Book Magazine, 70, 3 (May - Jun 1994): 313
Created: May 1994
Description:
Item H44
Review Of: Tough Boris
Reviewer: Hazel Rochman
Citation: Booklist, (3 Jan 1994).
Created: January 1994
Description:
Item H45
Review Of: Tough Boris
Reviewer: Hazel Rochman
Citation: Booklist, (3 Jan 1994).
Created: January 1994
Description:
Item H46
Review Of: Wildred Gordon McDonald Partridge
Title: Books for Children
Reviewer: Shirley Stott Despoja
Citation: The Saturday Review, The Advertiser, 15 Dec 1984
Created: December 1984
Description:
Item H47
Review Of: Time for Bed
Title: New Books
Reviewer: John Murray
Citation: Magpies, 9, 2 (May 1994): 28
Created: May 1994
Description:
Item H48
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: US audience lifts 'Possum Magic'sales
Reviewer: Robert Hefner
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 18 Jun 1995.
Created: June 1995
Description:
Item H49
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: The magic of 40 words
Citation: The Chronicle (ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥), 10 Jul 1995.
Created: July 1995
Description:
Item H50
Review Of: Wombat Divine
Reviewer: Frances Kelly
Citation: The Australian Weekend Review, 25 - 26 Nov 1995.
Created: November 1995
Description:
Item H51
Review Of: Wombat Divine
Title: Gift suggestions for children
Reviewer: Stephen Matthews
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 10 Dec 1995.
Created: December 1995
Description:
Item H52
Review Of: Boo to a Goose
Title: Big images, big fun from a very few words
Reviewer: P. Layland
Citation: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 29 Jun 1996.
Created: June 1996
Description:
Item H53
Review Of: Wombat Divine
Citation: Magpies, 10, 5 (Nov 1995): 27
Created: November 1995
Description:
Item H54
Review Of: Boo to a Goose
Title: Magical cadence
Reviewer: Liz Posmyk
Citation: The Chronicle (ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥), 7 Apr 1997.
Created: April 1997
Description:
Item H55
Review Of: Boo to a Goose
Title: Wouldn't buy Boo to a Goose
Citation: The Weekend Review, 11 - 12 May 1996, p. 7
Created: May 1996
Description:
Item H56
Review Of: Possum Magic
Title: The Editor Chooses
Citation: The Sydney Morning Herald; The Good Weekend, p.38
Created: 23 Jul 1983
Item H57
Review Of: Tough Boris
Title: [Untitled]
Reviewer: White, Kerry
Citation: Bookphile no. 3
Created: Aug 1998
Item H58
Review Of: Sleepy Bears
Title: [Untitled]
Reviewer: White, Kerry
Citation: Bookphile, no.3
Created: Jul 1999
Item H59
Review Of: Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!
Title: [Untitled]
Reviewer: M.V.P.
Citation: The Horn Book Magazine 76(2): 185
Created: Mar/Apr 2000
Item H60
Review Of: Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!
Title: [Untitled]
Reviewer: McClelland, Kate
Citation: School Library Journal 46(4): 104
Created: Apr 2000
Item H61
Review Of: Reading Magic: How Your Child Can Learn to Read Before School and Other Read-Aloud Miracles
Title: A Look at...
Reviewer: Zahnleiter, Joan
Citation: Magpies 16(2):23
Created: May 2001
Item H62
Review Of: Reading Magic: How Your Child Can Learn to Read Before School and Other Read-Aloud Miracles
Title: Reading Magic by Mem Fox
Reviewer: Iles, Merle
Citation: Viewpoint 9(2): 34-35
Created: Winter 2001
Item H63
Review Of: The Magic Hat
Title: [Untitled]
Reviewer: Cooper, Ilene
Citation: Booklist 98(2): 1408
Created: 15 Apr 2002
Series K Correspondence
Item K1
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: V Crittenden
Created: January 1986
Description: Letter re radio material and translations, 9 Jan 1986.
Item K2
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: August 1989
Description: Letter with congratulations on Best Books for Children, also donations of translations, 24 Aug 1989.
Item K3
Correspondence From: J Condon
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: 0.1987
Description: Letter inviting her to speak at 23rd annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Seminar on 26-27 Sep 1987.
Item K4
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: J Condon
Created: March 1987
Description: Letter regretting unable to come to seminar and suggesting following year, 21 Mar 1987.
Item K5
Correspondence From: J Condon
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: 0.1987
Description: Letter accepting her offer to come to Seminar in 1988. [n.d. 1987]
Item K6
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: J Condon
Created: April 1987
Description: Letter accepting invitation to speak at Seminar in 1988, 19 Apr 1987.
Item K7
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: P Clayton
Created: 0.1988
Description: Letter regarding Lu Rees Archives database. Agreeable.
Item K8
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: March 1988
Description: Letter inviting her to speak at 24th annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Seminar, 30 Sep -1 Oct 1988, 8 Mar 1988
Item K9
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: April 1988
Description: Letter accepting Seminar invitation, enclosing biographical information, bibliography and list of books to be discussed, 21 Apr 1988.
Item K10
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: May 1988
Description: Card noting return of books borrowed and two photographs of self for Seminar, 1 May 1988.
Item K11
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: May 1988
Description: Letter re Seminar details and various items, 3 May 1988.
Item K12
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: May 1988
Description: Letter asking whether paper to be given in Boston will be published in order to clear copyright for ACT Seminar publication in future, 6 May 1988.
Item K13
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: May 1988
Description: Letter commenting on new books out and surprise at items on her bibliography, 8 May 1988.
Item K14
Correspondence From: A Bolton
Correspondence To: Secretary to Mrs Hawke
Created: October 1998
Description: Letter inquiring whether Hazel Hawke would launch Koala Lou at Seminar on 1 Oct 1998, 6 Sep 1988.
Item K15
Correspondence From: A Bolton
Correspondence To: J Drakeford
Created: September 1988
Description: Letter re Seminar 20 Sep - 1 Oct 1988, 7 Sep 1988.
Item K16
Correspondence From: A Bolton
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: September 1988
Description: Letter re Seminar 20 Sep - 1 Oct 1988 arrangements, 12 Sep 1988.
Item K17
Correspondence From: J Drakeford
Correspondence To: A. Bolton
Created: September 1988
Description: Letter instructing how to mount the artwork of Koala Lou for Seminar 20 Sep - 1 Oct 1988, 28 Sep 1988.
Item K18
Correspondence From: J Drakeford
Correspondence To: A Bolton
Created: October 1988
Description: Letter with thanks for launch of Koala Lou, Ian Drakeford Publishing's first launch, 6 Oct 1988.
Item K19
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: July 1989
Description: Letter stating information for Lu Rees Archives is fine, 4 Jul 1989.
Item K20
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: November 1989
Description: Letter re Koala Lou and omission of last line. Notice of Award for Koala Lou: 10 best picture books of year chosen by Redbook Magazine, 19 Nov 1989.
Item K21
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: April 1990
Description: Letter enclosing review of Stagecoach play version of Night Noises, 11 Apr 1990.
Item K22
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: April 1990
Description: Letter thanking her for review of play version of Night Noises, 26 Apr 1990.
Item K23
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: Abingdon Press, Nashville Tennessee
Created: August 1990
Description: Letter concerning With love at Christmas, 8 Aug 1990.
Item K24
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: July 1990
Description: Letter concerning US publication of With Love at Christmas, 27 Jul 1990.
Item K25
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: September 1989
Description: Letter concerning donation of material for the Archives, 11 Sep 1989.
Item K26
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: July 1990
Description: Letter concerning the US publication of With Love at Christmas, 25 Jul 1990.
Item K27
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1989
Description: Memo acknowledging receipt of editions , 13 Nov 1989.
Item K28
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: October 1990
Description: Letter about a workshop on writing picture books conducted by M Fox, 9 Oct 1990.
Item K29
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: February 1991
Description: Letter thanking her for her letter of congratulations on winning Advance Australia Award and Dromkeen Medal. Letter enclosed two press releases, information on the Advance Australia Award and M Fox's invitations to receive her awards, 15 Feb 1991.
Item K30
Correspondence From: J Robb, S.A. Awards Co-ordinator, Advance Australia Foundation
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: January 1991
Description: Letter congratulating her on her Advance Australia Award and enclosing details of the A.A.A. and details of the presentation ceremony, 9 Jan 1991.
Item K31
Correspondence From: Advance Australia Foundation, on behalf of Her Excellency, the Governor Dame Roma Mitchell DBE, AC
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: [Feb?] 1991
Description: Invitation to receive her Advance Australia Award. (Event dated 14 Feb 1991)
Item K32
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: November 1990
Description: Postcard expressing happiness, 26 Nov 1990.
Item K33
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: November 1990
Description: Letter notifying of the despatch to the Archives of a near-final draft of Mem's the Word, 16 Nov 1990.
Item K34
Correspondence From: Pam Evers (Omnibus Books)
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1990
Description: Cover note which accompanied book review from the US, 13 Nov 1990.
Item K35
Correspondence From: P. Matthews
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1990
Description: Letter rejecting The Rude Cow manuscript as unsuitable for Omnibus' Dipper series, 13 Nov 1990.
Item K36
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: October 1990
Description: Letter re Inside Story and Imagineers, 11 Oct 1990.
Item K37
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: October 1990
Description: Letter re With Love, at Christmas, 24 Oct 1990.
Item K38
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1990
Description: Letter re article in Language Arts, 21 Nov 1990.
Item K39
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1990
Description: Letter re Mem's the Word, 27 Nov 1990.
Item K40
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: February 1991
Description: Letter congratulating her on Dromkeen Medal, 13 Feb 1991 .
Item K41
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: August 1991
Description: Letter re meeting with Leslie Rees (with photograph), 5 Aug 1991.
Item K42
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: November 1991
Description: Letter thanking her and donating more material for Lu Rees Archives, 11 Nov 1991.
Item K43
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: August 1991
Description: Letter re the latter's letter to Leslie Rees, 16 Aug 1991.
Item K44
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: December 1991
Description: Letter thanking her for letter and photograph, 4 Dec 1991.
Item K45
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: December 1993
Description: Letter which accompanied materials donated to the Archives, 29 Dec 1993.
Item K46
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: February 1985
Description: Letter from M Fox to B Alderman re 'Wildred Gordon Macdonald Partridge review, 11 Feb 1985.
Item K47
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: March 1985
Description: Letter from B Alderman to M Fox re K46, 19 Mar 1985
Item K48
Correspondence From: B Aldeman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Description: Letter from B Alderman to M Fox regarding the 24th Writing and Illustrating for Children Seminar.
Item K49
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: January 1994
Description: Letter from B Alderman to M Fox thanking her for the donation of material to the Lu Rees Archives, 7 Jan 1994.
Item K50
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: May 1994
Description: Letter from M Fox to B Alderman donating her latest book 'Tough Boris' and including a postcard for her next book 'Sophie', 21 May 1994.
Item K51
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: May 1994
Description: Letter from B Alderman to M Fox thanking her for the donation of 'Tough Boris' to the Lu Rees Arcvhives, 30 May 1994.
Item K52
Correspondence From: M Fox
Correspondence To: B Alderman
Created: October 1995
Description: Letter from m Fox to B Alderman donating her latest book 'Wombat Divine', 15 Oct 1995.
Item K53
Correspondence From: B Alderman
Correspondence To: M Fox
Created: November 1995
Description: Letter from B Alderman to M Fox thanking her for the donation of 'Wombat Divine' to the Lu Rees Archives, 1 Nov 1995.
Series Q Manuscripts
Item Q1
Title: Mem's the Word.
Author: Fox, Mem
Description: Draft typed manuscript. Author indicates three chapters which were partially rewritten. 206pp + bibliography and 3 introductory pages. Spiral bound, dated Dec 1989.
Item Q2
Title: Feathers and Fools.
Author: Fox, Mem
Description: Typed one-page manuscript. Includes authors handwritten alterations, dated 20 Feb 1986.
Item Q3
Title: The Rude Cow.
Author: Fox, Mem
Description: Typed five-page manuscript (unpublished), dated 1 Aug 1990. Accompanying letter from publisher, dated 13 Nov 1990. (K35)
Item Q4
Title: The Rude Cow
Author: Fox, Mem
Description: Accompaning letter from publisher, dated 13 Nov 1990
Series S Photographs
Item S1
Image Of: Mem Fox.
Created: 1984
Description: Black and white. 19cm x 12.5cm. .
Item S2
Image Of: Mem Fox and Julie Vivas at launching of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
Description: Black and white. 12.5cm x 9cm.
Item S3
Image Of: Mem Fox.
Created: 1988
Description: Black and white. 14cm x 17.5cm.
Item S4
Image Of: Mem Fox.
Created: 1988
Description: Black and white. 14cm x 17.5cm.
Item S5
Image Of: Mem Fox and Paul Jennings in front of Parliament House
Created: October 1988
Description: Colour. 15cm x 10cm
Item S6
Image Of: 'Get to Know Mem Fox'
Created: Nov 1989
Description: Colour. 15cm x 10cm. Display outside Library of 97th Street School, Watts, Los Angeles, USA.
Item S7
Image Of: Mem Fox and Leslie Rees, Sydney
Created: April 1991
Description: Colour. 14.5cm x 10cm.
Item S8
Image Of: Mem Fox with Gillian Rubinstein and Paul Jennings
Created: March 1990
Description: Colour. 10cm x 14.5cm.
Item S9
Image Of: Mem Fox and Julie Vivas with young admirer
Created: December 1989
Description: Aloud in the Park', Dec 1989. Colour 10 cm x 15.5 cm photograph. Photographer : David Bateson.
Series U Posters
Item U1
Title: Possum Magic the Musical
Publisher/Producer: Monash University
Created: July 1990
Description: Colour Poster 29.7 cm x 21 cm. Garry Ginivan Attractions at the Victorian Arts Centre, The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Theatre, 11 - 15 Jul.
Item U2
Title: Possum Magic the Musical
Publisher/Producer: Monash University
Created: July 1990
Description: Colour Poster 40.5 cm x 62 cm. Garry Ginivan Attractions at the Victorian Arts Centre, The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Theatre, 11 - 15 Jul.
Series V Promotional Material
Item V1
Title: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
Publisher/Producer: Tower Books
Created: July 1984
Description: Press release.
Item V2
Title: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
Publisher/Producer: Tower Books
Created: July 1984
Description: Press release.
Item V3
Title: Hattie and the Fox.
Publisher/Producer: Reading Time
Created: 1989
Description: Advertisement.
Item V4
Title: Sail Away: The Ballad of Skip and Nell.
Publisher/Producer: Ashton Scholastic.
Description: Press release. 2pp.
Item V5
Title: Mem's the Word.
Publisher/Producer: Penguin
Created: October 1990
Description: Press release
Item V6
Title: The Dromkeen Medal
Publisher/Producer: Ashton Scholastic.
Description: Media release. n.d.
Item V7
Title: Night Noises.
Publisher/Producer: Omnibus Books.
Created: April 1991
Description: Press release.
Item V8
Title: Brunch with Mem Fox
Publisher/Producer: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times
Created: July 1991
Description: Advertisement. 2 Jul 1991.
Item V9
Title: Possum Magic, the musical
Publisher/Producer: The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times
Created: May 1991
Description: Advertisement. 25 May 1991.
Item V10
Title: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
Publisher/Producer: Tower Books.
Created: July 1984
Description: Press Release.
Item V11
Title: Possum Magic.
Publisher/Producer: Omnibus Books.
Created: August 1984
Description: Press Release
Item V12
Title: LOTS OF LOVE MEM FOX
Description: Stickers - LOTS OF LOVE MEM FOX. Round, text in blue ink with blue fox. Stickers - LOTS OF LOVE MEM FOX. Round, text in red ink with red fox.
Item V13
Title: Possum Magic .
Description: Set of stickers. Round, colour : Koala doing a handstand. Koala crouching, looking backwards. Grandma Poss curled in a ball. Echidna standing on one foot. Rainbow serpent coiled.
Item V14
Title: Possum Magic 10 Magic Years Happy Birthday
Description: Bookmark. Illustration of Grandma Poss with balloons.
Item V15
Title: Possum Magic 10 Magic Years Happy Birthday
Description: Sticker. Illustration of Grandma Poss with balloons.
Item V16
Title: Possum Magic
Description: Note card - illustration of Koala. 10cm x 6cm. (2 copies)
Item V17
Title: Possum Magic
Description: Card - illustration of Grandma Poss riding a bicycle.
Item V18
Title: Time For Bed
Description: Card - illustration of sleeping polar bear.
Item V19
Title: Shoes from Grandpa
Description: Christmas card - illustration of grandpa and granddaughter.
Item V20
Title: Possum Magic
Description: Sheet of notepaper - illustration of Koala. 14.5cm x 21cm.
Item V21
Title: Christmas Cake
Description: Postcard featuring a poem by Mem Fox titled Christmas Cake.
Item V22
Title: Possum Magic
Publisher/Producer: Scholastic Parade
Created: May 1998
Description: Front cover, Scholastic Parade. Mem Fox, 'Possum Magic', May 1998.
Item V23
Title: Invitation
Created: August
Description: Invitation - Book Bunker opening by Mem Fox on 14 Aug 199? at he New Children's Hospital Westmead, level one at 10.00 am
Item V24
Title: Feathers Fools
Publisher/Producer: Ashton Scholatic
Description: Media release. n.d.
Item V25
Title: Time for Bed
Publisher/Producer: Ashton Scholastic
Description: Media release. n.d.
Item V26
Title: Wombat Divine
Publisher/Producer: Scholastic Australia
Description: Media release.
Item V27
Title: Whoever you are
Publisher/Producer: Harcourt Brace
Description: Media release. n.d.
Item V28
Title: Tough Boris
Publisher/Producer: Penguin Books Australia
Created: July 1998
Description: Media release
Item V29
Title: Boo to a Goose
Publisher/Producer: Books Illustrated
Created: May
Description: Exhibition, 12 May 199?.
Item V30
Title: Mem Fox Magic
ABC Audio Created: May 2002
Description: Flier advertising Mem Fox audio cassettes.
Item V31
Title: Inaugural Universal Children's Week Lecture
National Museum of Australia and University of ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Created: September 2002
Description: Publicity flyer
Series W Programs
Item W1
Title: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Plays Possum
Created: June 1986
Description: 06-Jun-86
Item W2
Title: Writing and Illustrating for Children
Created: September 1987
Description: Details of speakers of 24th annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Seminar, 30 Sep - 1 Oct 1987.
Item W3
Title: Images of Australia
Created: September 1987
Description: Program for seminar 'Images of Australia' described above
Item W4
Title: Night Noises
Created: April 1990
Description: Stagecoach Theatre presentation. Announcement. ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Times, 7 Apr 1990.
Item W5
Title: Annual General Meeting of Friends of Dromkeen
Created: February 1991
Description: (23 Feb 1991) M Fox was presented with the Dromkeen Medal, Feb 1991.
Item W6
Title: Mem Fox The Story Fights Back: Allowing Literature to Do Its Own Teaching.
Created: August 1991
Description: Rigby Professional Development presents Mem Fox The Story Fights Back: Allowing Literature to Do Its Own Teaching. Sydney: 31 Aug 1991, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥: 1 Sep 1991.
