6/20/2023 0 Comments Possum magic book and toy![]() ![]() Mem Fox reading Possum Magic to Mitchell Forde, 5, and Grace Peel, 5. “I found it very difficult to find a very Australian book for my daughter when she was growing up, I thought this is ridiculous,” she said. “When I went to Oman and read it to kids there that don’t know the story, they’re just alive with it, they’re on the edge of their bottoms,” she said.įox added that most people don’t realise that Possum Magic was also written “out of anger”. I would have killed it, I slapped myself and didn’t do it.”įox said she still pinches herself when she thinks about the success of the book, which has been read by children all over the world for 34 years. “It would have wrecked it, I did try, but it was pathetic. “I tried once three years after it was born, but it’s so special and it’s unique, there’s nothing else like it,” she said. Nothing else like itįox said Possum Magic is so “special” to her that she would never write a sequel to it, or turn it into a series. The three $2 coins with Possum Magic illustrations. ![]()
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