Possum Magic by Mem Fox7/2/2023 ![]() It was a lesson well taught, and well learnt. No wonder the lecturer had set the task-we all discovered how difficult it was to write for young children and our estimation of children’s authors rose sky high. ![]() ‘How easy!’ I felt that the assignment was beneath me. In the introductory class I was horrified to discover that, in an otherwise highly demanding academic course, one of the first assignments was to write a children’s book. ![]() She was such an avid reader I couldn’t keep up with her passion for books so I decided, as a non-traditional student, to take a course in children’s literature to find out about as many books as possible that might interest her, particularly those that had been published since my own childhood. “Once upon a time, but not very long ago, deep in the Australian bush, there lived two possums. ![]()
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