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		<title>Goodnight, Sleep Tight.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Stories Behind The Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goodnight, Sleep Tight was first published in 1988. It had seven nursery rhymes woven into its structure because I’d heard at a literacy conference in South Africa in the early 90s that children who know six nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four are usually in the top reading group at the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we teach writing well or badly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[For Parents and Teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Donald Graves Memorial Speech
Australian Literacy Educators convention, July 2102 
Once upon a time—in 1992—I found myself in Donald Graves’ house in New Hampshire. Linda Rief, a friend of mine, was friend of his, so there we were, somehow, at his place, taking tea with God himself, and his wife, Betty.  To put me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 13th 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hah, hah! Tricked ya!
I wouldn’t want to shock you to death by updating my Hot News so quickly. Oh no.  This is merely an alert.  I wanted you to know that in the section ‘For Parents and Teachers’ I have posted a recent speech about the teaching of writing.  Its ridiculous title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More child care horror</title>
		<link>http://www.memfox.com/more-child-care-horror.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[For Parents and Teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The email below arrived in early August 2012.  I thought it deserved a wider audience so I asked the writer for permission to reprint it here.  This is an issue that will not go away, and which must be discussed, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us feel or how angry. Children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pamela Lofts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>

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A photo of Pam Lofts, John Hunwick and Mem Fox at the launch of Hunwick&#8217;s Egg, 2005
It is with great sorrow that I report the passing of Pamela Lofts. She died on July 4th. Pam was the brilliant illustrator of three of my books: Sail Away; Koala Lou; and Hunwick’s Egg. I found her to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Still here! Still kicking! Still writing!
In a world full of instant and often irrelevant information, tweeted by the minute, this website is a creaking, pre-historic vehicle that prefers to emerge from its cave only on the rarest of occasions. So what’s new?
I am out and about again, as people might have noticed at recent conferences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 1st 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, good GRIEF! An ex-student has alerted me to the fact that my website hasn’t been up-dated recently. I should be completely mortified over my six-month silence but I’m not. I care for Theo, our adored grandson every morning until lunchtime. Malcolm takes over in the afternoon.
This means that after lunch I have very few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[All About Mem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WHOEVER YOU ARE  
for UTS Hon. Doc. Graduation Ceremony
								Mem Fox 28:04:11
It’s a thrill to share this great day with you. It’s so wild finishing a course, holding the parchment, kissing the qualification and thinking: ‘It’s over!  Fantastic!  Now I can live again.’  I know how you feel. I can still remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books for babies under one year old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[For Parents and Teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a query from a new mother recently about books for small babies.  I thought it might be sensible to show the world my reply, and a list of books for under-one-year olds: see below…
Dear Lucy
I have just come from caring for our grandson which I do every morning, and of course I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 2010 update</title>
		<link>http://www.memfox.com/november-2010-update.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hot News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again from the blushing author whose website is so often unattended and unloved. I&#8217;m only slightly apologetic! My grandson Theo is SO attended to and SO loved that things like websites fade into insignificance. I&#8217;m sure the entire world, including you, dear reader, would agree that in the general scheme of things focussing on [...]]]></description>
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