File 05: Mem Fox records

MLMSS 12268/Boxes 4-8

file

1986-2006

9684040

0.8 metres of textual material (5 boxes), includes photographs - typescript

This file mainly consists of correspondence relating to contract negotiations, book deals, financials, overseas publication rights and copyright permissions.

BOX 4
FOLDER 1
Records mainly relating to Possum Magic, Feathers and Fools, With Love, At Christmas; Goodnight, Sleep Tight; Scream, All Alone, Mem's the Word, Tough and Crackerjack. Includes correspondence requesting Caroline Lurie to be her agent, stage rights for Possum Magic and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, film rights for Feathers and Fools, film on Mem Fox and Julie Vivas as part of Storymaker series, discussions regarding illustrators, progress notes regarding development and editing of writing projects and manuscripts, 1986-1989

FOLDER 2
Records mainly relating to Feathers and Fools, Tough, Mem's the Word, With Love, At Christmas; The Thing in the Garden, Mem Fox Reads, Night Noises, Koala Lou, Leo Lipinski, Time for Bed, Boo to a Goose. Includes correspondence relating to audio book options, Possum Magic merchandising negotiations, contracts for Feathers and Fools and With Love, At Christmas and progress notes regarding development and editing of writing projects and manuscripts, 1990-1991

FOLDER 3
Records mainly relating to Boo to a Goose, The Rude Cow, Koala Lou, Wombat Divine and Possum Magic, the musical. Includes correspondence relating to speaking engagements, translations, interviews, progress notes and the 10th anniversary of Possum Magic, 1992

FOLDER 4
Records mainly relating to Be Gone, Be Gone; Life Song and Ben, Again. Includes correspondence relating to the 10th anniversary of Possum Magic, establishing the Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge award, typed manuscript of short stories, Miss Rosie Moves On and Under the Sun, 1993

FOLDER 5
Records mainly relating to Time For Bed and Koala Lou. Includes typed manuscripts of Ben Again and Wombat Divine, ABPA speech, The Drover's Dog Writes a Picture Book, and storyboard and colour roughs for Ben Again by Sharka, 1994

FOLDER 6
Records mainly relating to Time For Bed, Koala Lou, The Magic Hat and Sophie. Includes correspondence relating to television dramatisation of Tough Boris, typed manuscripts of See ya, Maria! and With Love, At Christmas, fax from Tim Winton to Mem Fox, 1995

FOLDER 7
Records mainly relating to Koala Lou, Time For Bed, Whoever You Are, Finding Clem and Guess What. Includes commercial storyboard for Time For Bed, treatment for feature film Maggie's Girl, film and television rights for Possum Magic, typed manuscript of Sleepy Bears, 1996-1998


BOX 5
FOLDER 1
Records mainly relating to Hunwick's Egg, Koala Lou, Read Aloud Miracle, Time For Bed, Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild and Reading Magic. Includes reader's report for The Read Aloud Miracle, teaching material for The Magic of Mem, typed manuscript of Hunwick's Egg, 1997-November 2000

FOLDER 2
Records mainly relating to Reading Magic, Time For Bed, The Magic Hat and Koala Lou. Includes correspondence regarding The Magic of Mem, presentation by The Twelfth Night Theatre, 2001 Reading Magic mystery tour itinerary, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge play adaptation and colour photographs (20) of Mem Fox, August 2000-2001

FOLDER 3
Records mainly relating to Have a Memmy Christmas, Reading Magic and Guess What. Includes correspondence relating to Mem Fox audio release, audio rights, Auslan adaptations, speaking engagements, typed essay, 'Private education v private schools: The debate continues', Dec 2000-September 2002

FOLDER 4
Records mainly relating to Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild, Reading Magic, Hunwick's Egg, A Particular Cow, Whoever You Are, The Green Sheep and How to Teach Drama to Infants. Includes correspondence regarding The Magic of Mem, presentation by The Twelfth Night Theatre, November 2002-2003


BOX 6
FOLDER 1
Records mainly relating to Reading Magic, Where the Giant Sleeps Where is the Green Sheep and Night Noises. Includes correspondence relating to Tough Boris education video, Possum Magic translation, photocopies of proposed Possum Magic board book rough and Reading Magic book cover rough, Dymocks best sellers list, 29 May 2004, poem Dragon Fire, colour photographs (2) of Where is the green sheep? Book launch, including flyer, 2004

FOLDER 2
Records mainly relating to Dragon Fire, Time For Bed, Koala Lou and Whoever You Are. Includes fliers for Possum Magic live on stage and Hunwick's Egg book launch, Time For Bed production at Sydney Opera House, typed manuscripts of Two little Monkeys, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Scholastic marketing and publicity launch campaign booklet for Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary, 2005-2006

FOLDER 3
Mem Fox publicity and reviews, 1989-2000

FOLDER 4
Printed colour proof of Where the giant sleeps by Mem Fox and Vladimir Radunsky, with handwritten annotations

FOLDER 5
Mem Fox payments, 1987-1991

FOLDER 6
Mem Fox payments, 1992-June 1993


BOX 7
FOLDER 1
Mem Fox payments, July 1993-1994

FOLDER 2
Mem Fox payments, 1995-September 1998

FOLDER 3
Mem Fox royalties, 1994

FOLDER 4
Mem Fox royalties, 1995-1996

FOLDER 5
Mem Fox royalties, 1997-1998


BOX 8
FOLDER 1
Mem Fox royalties, November 1995-November 2000

FOLDER 2
Mem Fox royalties, November 1995-May 2001

FOLDER 3
Mem Fox royalties, 1997-November 2002

FOLDER 4
Mem Fox royalties, December 2002-2003

Restricted: Applies to MLMSS 12268/Boxes 4-5, and MLMSS 12268/Box 6/Folders 1-4 Material is embargoed until 2042 as requested by the author., Expires: 2042-12-31
Restricted: Applies to Box 6/Folders 5-6, and Boxes 7-8 Material is embargoed until the death of the author

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

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