Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is a 1984 children's picture book by Mem Fox.

In 1998, American company Weston Woods Studio released a film adaptation of this book, narrated by the author with music by Ernest Troost.

The name of the boy who is the central character is that of Fox's father, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, who, with his wife, Nancy, was sent to Zimbabwe as a teaching missionary.

[1] School Library Journal wrote: "The illustrations - splashy, slightly hazy watercolors in rosy pastels - contrast the boy's fidgety energy with his friends' slow, careful movements and capture the story's warmth and sentiment".

[3] A review by the NYU Langone Medical Center called it "a magnificently written and illustrated story about communication".