I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.