Reading Magic
How your Children can Learn to Read Before School and Other Read-Aloud Miracles
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'Reading aloud to our babies and young children will make the entire country better off.'
Mem Fox is Australia's best-loved picture-book author and has taught and advocated for literacy around the world for more than 30 years.
In this modern classic, Mem explores the power and impact that reading aloud to our children can have-on literacy, development, confidence and connection. She explains the benefits and processes of reading, offers practical guidance and tackles enduring controversies from phonics to television.
Inspiring, informative and delightfully illustrated by Mem's long-time collaborator Judy Horacek, this is essential reading for mothers and fathers, carers and teachers.
Judy Horacek
As a popular cartoonist and writer, Judy Horacek's cartoons have been pinned to doors and walls all over the world. She is the author of the bestselling books Lost in Space and Where is the Green Sheep? She is also the illustrator of Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again by Mem Fox. Judy resides in Toorak, Australia.
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