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If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

Mem Fox

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Mem Fox
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 5
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Merrion Frances Partridge
Merrion Frances Fox
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