Books by Mem Fox
![The Goblin and the Empty Chair [with audio recording] (2013)](/mem-fox/the-goblin-and-the-empty-chair-with-audio-recording/cover)
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review 1: I love this book! There are so many things you could teach using this book that are so entertaining. On each page, there is something different that the goat is doing, and it is having the reader count how many goats are in this picture. This book would be perfect for either a ch...
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review 1: Mem Fox's books are always fun to read, and this one is no exception. Young readers will love the repetitive phrases "Where are you?" (unpaged) and "There you are.." (unpaged) and the fact that ladybug is being addressed directly. Readers must look within the colorful digital ill...
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review 1: This is a great short story for very young children such as toddlers and preschoolers, because the story uses simple words to describe the animals in the book, and because the illustrations on each page are very realistic and vivid. Each page is made into a guessing game, it mak...
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review 1: Bestselling picture book author Mem Fox reunited with illustrator Judy Horacek to create Good Night, Sleep Tight, which brings to life classic children's rhymes, within its own story! This book tells the story of two children, Bonny and Ben, home on a Friday night with their favo...
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review 1: This is a book about different babies, all born in different places around the world. All of the babies have one similarity though; they all have ten little fingers and ten little toes. No matter what skin color, what culture, what gender, and so on, all babies have one common tr...
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review 1: Big bold pictures and playful rhyme, repetition and pacing make this one seem perfect for storytime sharing. I have to agree with one of my colleagues, though. It didn't make sense to me why jumping from one tree to another made the monkeys safe. According to the LC cataloging...
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review 1: Yoo-hoo ladybug! Where are you? There you are...is repeated throughout this look and find book until ladybug escapes in a car. Ladybug hides among objects in the bathtub, on the stairs and in a playroom, giving children and the reader many things to talk about. Once the bug i...
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review 1: This book contains large colorful pictures of animals on a white background, with one-sentence questions on each page. The book is given rhythm by use of rhyming words that pair animals on two consecutive pages. Animal names are associated with pictures and some attribute of th...
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review 1: This is a picture book that has babies being born in all different places it shows through the illustrations that they are all from different cultures. After each place where the baby is born the story says, “as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes”. This is...
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review 1: This was an adorable picture book about how many babies may be born in different areas or grow up with different traditions, but in the end they all have ten little fingers and ten little toes. This was the reference that kept being given after the author would show the differenc...
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review 1: Goblin sees himself in a pond one day and hates how ugly and scary he looks. He decides to hide away from people and live a life where he won't be seen. In the forest he notices a farmer chopping wood. At night the goblin goes to help but ends up being seen. The next day he sees ...
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review 1: Very beautiful illustrations in a formal style. Expressive faces. Mem Fox's writing demonstrates that 'show it, don't tell it' principle of writing. She simply states what happens; what each character is doing, allowing the reader to infer whatever he or she wishes to from it. th...
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review 1: Tell Me About Your Day Today is about a boy who loves his bedtime more than almost anything. When it's time for bed, he loves the bedtime kisses, and getting to talk to all of his friends at the end of the day (his stuffed horse, rabbit, and bunny). He asks them each how their da...