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Michael Foreman

Male : Children's writer & illustrator
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Pakefield, Suffolk

Date of Birth : 1938

Education : Notley Road Secondary Modern School, Lowestoft, Lowestoft School of Art & Royal College of Art
Books written and illustrated by Foreman
All Hamish Hamilton unless stated
1967-1975
The Perfect Present
(1967)
The Two Giants
(1967 Brockhampton)
The Great Sleigh Robbery
(1968)
Horatio
(1970)
Moose
(1971)
Dinosaurs and All that Rubbish
(1972)
War and Peas
(1974)

1976-1985
All the King's Horses
(1976) (1977 Bradbury US)
(Trans from the Chinese) Monkey and the Three Wizards (1976 Collins)
Panda's Puzzle, and His Voyage of Discovery
(1977) (1978 Bradbury Press, US)
Mickey's Kitchen Contest
(1978 Andersen Press)
Winter's Tales
(1979 Benn) - with Freire White
The Tiger Who Lost His Stripes
(1980 Andersen Press)
Fairy Tales
(1981 Pavilion)
Trick a Tracker
(1981 Gollancz)
Panda and the Odd Lion
(1981)
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Tales
(1982 Gollancz)
The Magic Mouse and the Millionaire
(1982)
Land of Dreams
(1982 Andersen Press) (1982 Holt NY)
A Christmas Carol
(1983 Gollancz)
The Saga of Eric the Viking
(1983 Pavilion)
Cat and Canary
(1984 Andersen Press)
Panda and the Bunyips
(1984)
Brontosaurus Superstar
(1985)
I'll Take You to Mrs Cole
(1985 Andersen)

After 1986
Tales for the Telling : Irish Folk & Fairy Stories
(1986 Pavilion)
Panda and the Bushfire
(1986)
Ben's Box
(1986 Methuen)
Ben's Box
(1986 Hodder & Stoughton) - pop-up book
Just So Stories
(1987 Kestrel)
Ben's Baby
(1987 Andersen Press)
The Angel and the Wild Animal
(1988 Andersen Press)
War Boy : A Country Childhood
(1989 Pavilion)
War Game
(1989 Pavilion)
The Sand Horse
(1989 Andersen Press)
The Boy Who sailed with Columbus
(1991 Pavilion)
Dinosaur Time
(2002 Andersen Press £9.99)

Books illustrated by Foreman
Hans Christian ANDERSEN : His Classic Fairytales
(1976 Gollancz)
Allen ANDREWS : The Pig Plantagenet
(1980 Hutchinson)
(Chosen by) Michael BALDWIN : Poems for Children 1950-1961 (1962 Routledge)
Kurt BAUMANN : Mickey's Kitchen Contest
(1978 London)
Martin BAX : Edmond Went Far Away
(1988 Walker £8.95)
Sheila BURNFORD : Mr Noah and the Second Flood
(1973 Gollancz)
Angela CARTER : Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
(1982 Gollancz) - KURT MASCHLER PRIZE AWARD
Charles CAUSLEY : Early in the Morning
(1986 Viking/Kestrel £7.95)
Janet CHARLES : The General
(1961 London)
Peter DICKINSON : City of Gold & Other Stories from the Old Testament
(1980 Gollancz)
Leon GARFIELD : Shakespeare Stories
(1985 Gollancz)
Alan GARNER : The Stone Book
(1976 Collins)
Tom Fobble's Day
(1977 Collins)
Granny Reardun
(1977 Collins)
The Aimer Gate
(1978 Collins)
Fairy Tales of Gold
(1989)
Brothers GRIMM : Popular Folk Tales
(1978 Gollancz)
Ernest HEMINGWAY : The Faithfull Bull
(1980 Hamish Hamilton)
Madhur JAFFREY : Seasons of Splendour
(1985 Pavilion)
Terry JONES : Fairy Tales
(1981 Pavilion Books)
The Saga of Erik the Viking
(1983 Pavilion)
The Beast with a Thousand Teeth
(1993 Pavilion)
Nicobinus
(1985 Peter Bedrick, NY)
The Knight and the Squire
The Lady and the Squire
(2000 Pavilion £12.99)
Kiri Te KANAWA : Land of the Long White Cloud
(1989 Pavilion Books)
Rudyard KIPLING : The Crab that Played with the Sea
(1982 Macmillan)
Robert McCRUM : The Magic Mouse and the Millionaire
(1982 Hamish Hamilton)
Brontosaurus Superstar !
(1985 Hamish Hamilton)
Georges McHARGUE : Private Zoo
(1975 Collins)
Jean MERRILL : The Pushcart War
(1964 Wm Scott, US) (1973 Hamish Hamilton)
Nanette NEWMAN : A Cat and Mouse Love Story
(1984 Heinemann)
Edna O'BRIEN : Tales for the Telling
(1986 Atheneum) (1987 Hodder & Stoughton)
Eric QUAYLE : The Magic Ointment & Other Cornish Legends
(1986 Andersen)
The Shining Princess & Other Japanese Legends
(1989 Andersen, London)
Robert Louis STEVENSON : A Child's Garden of Verses
(1985 Gollancz £6.95)
Barbara WALKER : Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman
(1977 Andersen Press)
Oscar WILDE : The Selfish Giant
(1978 Kaye & Ward)
Jane YOLEN : Rainbow Rider
(1975 Collins)

Related Writers

Hans Christian Andersen


See also

Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Greenaway, Kate Medal Winners
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Robert Louis (balfour) Stevenson