Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë. Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. http://www.memfox.com/biography.html
Author's Possum magic, 1983 cover (Mem Fox) Aus. CIP data (Fox, Mem, 1946- )
Her Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, 1985 t.p. (Mem Fox) jkt. (b. in Melbourne; spent much of her early life in Zimbabwe; returned to Australia in 1970)
Her The goblin and the empty chair, c2009 t.p. (Mem Fox) dust jacket (Mem Fox has written many beloved and acclaimed books. She and her husband live in Adelaide, Australia. Visit her at memfox.net)