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Possum Magic is a 1983 children's picture book by Australian author Mem Fox, and illustrated by Julie Vivas. It concerns a young female possum, named Hush, who becomes invisible and has a number of adventures. In 2001, a film was made by the American company Weston Woods and narrated by the author.
Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox AM (née Partridge; born 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy.Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but she still writes and gives seminars.
Mem Fox: Possum Magic: Winner 1995 Margaret Wild: Toby: Winner 1996 Jessica Carroll: Billy the Punk: Winner 1997 Jessica Carroll: Billy the Punk: Winner 1998 Margaret Wild: The Midnight Gang: Winner 1999 Rod Clement: Grandad’s Teeth: Winner 2000 David Legge: Bamboozled: Winner 2003 Jackie French: Diary of a Wombat: Winner 2004 Pamela Allen ...
In terms of children's literature, Norman Lindsay (The Magic Pudding), Mem Fox (Possum Magic), and May Gibbs (Snugglepot and Cuddlepie) are among the Australian classics, while Melina Marchetta (Looking for Alibrandi) is a modern YA classic. Eminent Australian playwrights have included Ray Lawler, David Williamson, Alan Seymour and Nick Enright.
Mem Fox – Possum Magic; Dick King-Smith – The Sheep-Pig (also as Babe, the Gallant Pig) Harold Lamb (with George Barr and Alicia Austin) - The Sea of the Ravens; Jean Giono (with Willi Glasauer) – The Man Who Planted Trees; Julian F. Thompson - The Grounding of Group 6
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
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Amy Poehler. Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) is the deputy director of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, and the protagonist of Parks and Recreation.Leslie is a passionate, hard-working and ambitious woman who loves her hometown of Pawnee and, unlike many around her, has not lost her optimism in the face of government bureaucracy.