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.

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

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

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.

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

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

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