Michael foreman author biography outlines

British author and illustrator

Michael ForemanOBE (born 21 March ) is a British author and illustrator, one of the best-known and most prolific creators of children's books.^[1] He won the and Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration and he was a runner-up five times.^[2]

For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in and again in for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.^[3][4]

Life

Foreman was born and grew up in Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother kept the village shop.^[5][6] His father died a month before he was born.^[7] When he was three, the family home was hit by a German bomb, but he survived along with his mother and two older brothers.^[8] He studied at Lowestoft School of Art, and later in London at the Royal College of Art,^[9] where he won a scholarship to the United States.

Foreman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to literature.^[10]

Approach to illustration

Foreman learned to respond instantly to text as an art student.^[11] Having drawn for the newspapers and for the police, drawing female suspects when Identikit only catered for men, he gained valuable drawing experience.

Michael foreman author biography outlines He studied painting at Lowestoft School of Art and then, commercial art, for the next two years at St Martins School of Art in London before going on to the Royal College of Art to study graphics between It was during this time that Michael befriended Tom Hudson, a teacher who was recently appointed at the Lowestoft Art School. Written during the height of the Cold War, the anti-war message in the book resonated with readers. Related Stock.

A travel scholarship took him all around the world, drawing landscapes, architecture and wildlife. Although many of his books feature luminous watercolours, it is the drawing that he sees as vital: "It's all in the drawing and illustration. It's a question of creating another world, believable in its own right. I think I was very lucky to have started art school so young when they actually taught Art.

It was a rigorous training – not just painting and drawing from life – but hours of anatomy and perspective. it really taught you to understand what you were looking at."^[11] His aim in illustration is to make the worlds created believable, real: "I keep trying to make things more real, not in a literal photographic sense, but in an emotional sense, telling a story by capturing the essence of the situation, giving it some meaning."^[11]

Selected works

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• Comic Alphabets: Their origin, development, nature (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul (ISBN&#;), by Eric Partridge
• The General (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul, by Jane Charters
• The King Who Lived on Jelly (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Poems by Children –61 (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Huit Enfants et un Bebe (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman
• Making Music (illustrator) Longman
• The Bad Food Guide (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul
• I'm for You, and You're for Me (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman
• The Perfect Present (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• The Two Giants (author/illustrator) Brockhampton Press
• Let's Fight!

  and Other Russian Fables (illustrator) Pantheon (U.S.)

• The Great Sleigh Robbery (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Essex Poems, –67 (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

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• Adam's Balm (illustrator) Bowmar (U.S.)
• Horatio (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• The Birthday Unicorn (illustrator) Gollancz
• James and the Giant Peach (an adaptation) (illustrator) Penguin
• Moose (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• The Living Arts of Nigeria (illustrator) Studio Vista
• Dinosaurs and all that rubbish (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton, adapted into an online series and musical theatre production by Roustabout Theatre in
• Alexander in the Land of Mog (illustrator) Brockhampton Press
• Mr Noah and the Second Flood (illustrator) Gollancz
• The Living Treasures of Japan (illustrator) Wildwood House
• The Pushcart War (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• War and Peas (writer and illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Private Zoo (illustrator) Collinsn
• Rainbow Rider (illustrator) Collins
• Hans Andersen: His Classic Fairy Tales (illustrator) Gollancz
• Monkey and the Three Wizards (illustrator) Collins
• The Stone Book (illustrator) Collins
• Granny Reardun (illustrator) Collins
• Panda's Puzzle (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Tom Fobble's Day (illustrator) Collins
• Borrowed Feathers and Other Fables (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Mickey's Kitchen Contest (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Popular Folk Tales (illustrator) Gollancz, newly translated from Brothers Grimm by Brian Alderson —a Greenaway runner up,^[2][a]
• The Aimer Gate (illustrator) Collins
• The Princess and the Golden Mane (illustrator) Collins,
• The Selfish Giant (illustrator) Kaye & Ward
• Alan The Three Golden Heads of the Well (illustrator) Collins
• How to Catch a Ghost (illustrator) Holt (U.S.)
• The Golden Brothers (illustrator) Collins
• Winter's Tales (author) Benn

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• After Many a Summer (illustrator) Folio Society
• Alan Garner's Fairytales of Gold (illustrator) Collins
• City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament (illustrator) Gollancz, retold by Peter Dickinson, who won the Carnegie Medal^[12] —a Greenaway runner up (Highly Commended),^[2][a]
• The Faithful Bull (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• The Pig Plantagenet (illustrator) Hutchinson
• The Tiger Who Lost his Stripes (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Fairy Tales (illustrator) Pavilion, by Terry Jones
• Over the Bridge (illustrator) Viking Kestrel
• Panda and the Old Lion (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• The Nightingale and the Rose (illustrator) Kaye & Ward
• Trick a Tracker (author/illustrator) Gollancz
• Land of Dreams (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Long Neck and Thunder Foot (illustrator) Viking Kestrel, by Helen Piers —joint winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration^[13]
• Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales (illustrator) Gollancz, selected and translated from Perrault and Le Prince de Beaumont by Angela Carter —joint winner of the Greenaway Medal^[14] and winner of the Kurt Maschler Award for integration of writing and illustration in a British children's book^[15]
• The Crab That Played with the Sea (illustrator) Macmillan
• The Magic Mouse and the Millionaire (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (illustrator) Gollancz
• Poems for 7-Year-Olds and Under (illustrator) Viking Kestrel
• The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake (illustrator) Methuen
• The Saga of Erik the Viking (illustrator) Pavilion, by Terry Jones —a Greenaway runner up^[2][a]
• Treasure Island (illustrator) Puffin
• A Cat and Mouse Love Story (illustrator) Heinemann Quixote
• Cat and Canary (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Panda and the Bunyips (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Poems for 9-year-olds (illustrator) Viking Kestrel
• Poems for Over year-olds (illustrator) Viking Kestrel
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (illustrator, revised edition) Allen & Unwin, by Roald Dahl
• I'll Take You to Mrs Cole (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Nicobobinus (illustrator) Pavilion
• Poetic Gems (illustrator) Folio Society
• Seasons of Splendour: Tales, myths, and legends of India (illustrator) Pavilion, Madhur Jaffrey —a Greenaway runner up,^[2][a]
• Ben's Box: A Pop-up Fantasy (author/illustrator) Hodder & Stoughton
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (illustrator) Allen & Unwin
• Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems (illustrator) Viking
• Letters from Hollywood (illustrator) Harrap
• Panda and the Bushfire (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton
• Tales for the Telling (illustrator) Pavilion
• Ben's Baby (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Brontosaurus Superstar (illustrator) Magnet
• du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (illustrator) Gollancz
• Fun (illustrator) Gollancz
• Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka (illustrator) Unwin Hyman
• The Jungle Book (illustrator) Puffin
• Edmond Went Far Away (illustrator) Walker Macmillan
• The Angel and the Wild Animal (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Curse of the Vampire's Socks (illustrator) Pavilion
• The Magic Ointment (illustrator) Macmillan
• The Night Before Christmas (illustrator) Viking
• Peter Pan and Wendy (illustrator) Pavilion
• Worms Wiggle (author/illustrator) Carnival
• Land of the Long White Cloud (illustrator) Pavilion
• Once Upon a Planet (illustrator) Puffin
• The Sand Horse (illustrator) Andersen Press
• War Boy: a country childhood (author/illustrator) Pavilion —memoir, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal,^[16] —also entitled War Boy: a wartime childhood

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• Michael Foreman (author/illustrator) Beetles
• Michael Foreman's Mother Goose (illustrator) Walker
• Michael Foreman's World of Fairy Tales (illustrator) Pavilion
• One World (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Brothers Grimm: Popular Folk Tales (illustrator) Gollancz
• Busy!
  Michael foreman author biography outlines free He has also written and illustrated numerous books for children himself. Books for Keeps. During this time, Foreman was exposed to intensive studies of anatomy, perspective, and life drawings. Notes [ edit ].

  Busy! Busy! (illustrator) Andersen Press

• Michael Foreman's Nursery Rhymes (illustrator) Walker
• The Boy Who Sailed with Columbus (author/illustrator) Pavilion
• The Puffin Book of Twentieth-Century Stories (illustrator) Viking
• The Puffin Book of Twentieth-Century Verse (illustrator) Viking
• The Young Man of Cury and Other Poems (illustrator) Macmillan
• Fantastic Stories (illustrator) Pavilion
• Jack's Fantastic Voyage (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Spider the Horrible Cat (illustrator) Pavilion
• The Arabian Nights (illustrator) Gollancz
• The Echoing Green (illustrator) Viking
• Wyvern Winter (illustrator) Andersen Prensiess
• A Fish of the World (illustrator) Pavilion
• Funnybunch: A New Puffin Book of Funny Verse (illustrator) Viking
• Grandfather's Pencil (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Beast with a Thousand Teeth (illustrator) Pavilion
• The Long Weekend (illustrator) Andersen Press
• There's a Bear in the Bath (illustrator) Pavilion
• War Game (author/illustrator) Pavilion —a Greenaway runner up,^[2][a]
• Wyvern Spring (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Arthur, High King of Britain (illustrator) Pavilion/The National Trust
• Dad!

  I Can't Sleep (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

• Sarah and the Sandhorse (illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Fly-by-Night (illustrator) Pavilion
• The Sea Tiger (illustrator) Pavilion
• Wyvern Fall (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Wyvern Summer (illustrator) Andersen Press
• After the War was Over (author/illustrator) Pavilion
• Peter's Place (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Shakespeare Stories II (illustrator) Gollancz
• Surprise!

  Surprise! (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

• The Little Prince (illustrator) Pavilion
• A Child's Garden of Verses (illustrator) Gollancz
• Peter Pan and Wendy (illustrator) Pavilion
• Robin of Sherwood (illustrator) Pavilion
• Seal Surfer (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Little Reindeer (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Songs My Paddle Sings (illustrator) Pavilion
• There's a Bear in the Classroom (illustrator) Pavilion
• Creation: Stories from Around the World (illustrator) Walker
• Farm Boy (illustrator) Pavilion
• Look!
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  Look! (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

• The Knight and the Squire (illustrator) Pavilion
• The Little Ships (illustrator) Pavilion
• Chicken Licken (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Cockadoodle-doo Mr Sultana! (illustrator) Scholastic
• Jack's Big Race (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Joan of Arc (illustrator) Pavilion
• Kensuke's Kingdom (illustrator) Heinemann
• Michael Foreman's Christmas Treasury (author/illustrator) Pavilion
• The Little Red Hen (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Merrymaid of Zennor (illustrator) Orchard
• The Rainbow Bear (illustrator) Doubleday
• The Shining Princess and Other Japanese Legends (illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Story of Millennia the Angel (illustrator) Orchard
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (illustrator) Pavilion

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• Billy the Kid (illustrator) Pavilion
• Cat in the Manger (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Memories of Childhood (author/illustrator) Pavilion
• Rock-a-doodle-doo!

  (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

• The Lady and the Squire (illustrator) Pavilion
• Why Bear has a Stumpy Tail (illustrator) Walker
• Out of the Ashes (illustrator) Macmillan
• Saving Sinbad (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• The Wind in the Willows (illustrator) Pavilion
• Tom and the Pterosaur (illustrator) Walker
• Toro!

  Toro! (illustrator) Collins

• Bedtime Stories (illustrator) Chrysalis
• Cool!
  Examples of author biography When Foreman did return to England, he began lecturing in a number of London schools of art; St Martins School, The London College of Printing, The Royal College of Art and the Central School of Art; all the while, however, Foreman continued as a freelance illustrator, often at first working for magazines but also, at one point, working for the police as a sketch artist. I think I was very lucky to have started art school so young when they actually taught Art. It's a question of creating another world, believable in its own right. His mother ran the village shop while he was a child, and he read the newspapers and magazines that were available there.

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• Dinosaur Time (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Evie and the Man who Helped God (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes (author/illustrator) Walker
• The Last Wolf (illustrator) Doubleday
• The Sleeping Sword (illustrator) Egmont
• Wonder Goal (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Bobby, Charlton and the Mountain (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Cat on the Hill (author/illustrator) Andersen Press
• Hello World (author/illustrator) Walker
• Dolphin Boy (illustrator) Andersen Press
• Gentle Giant (illustrator) Collins
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (illustrator) Walker
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland (illustrator) Sterling
• One world (author/illustrator) Anderson Press
• Christmas crimes (illustrator) Folio Society
• Classic fairy tales (illustrator) Sterling
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (illustrator) Harper Collins
• Can't Catch Me!, author/illustrator, Andersen Press
• Beowulf, illustrator, Candlewick
• Fox Tale, author/illustrator, Andersen Press
• Mia's Story, author/illustrator, Walker
• Norman's Ark, author/illustrator, Andersen Press
• Michael Foreman's Classic Fairy Tales, adapter/illustrator, Pavilion
• Say Hello, illustrator, Walker
• Soggy the Bear, illustrator, Mabecron Books
• Soggy to the Rescue, illustrator, Mabecron Books
• Team Trouble, illustrator, Andersen Press
• The Mozart Question, illustrator, Walker
• White Owl, Barn Owl, illustrator, Candlewick
• Kaspar, illustrator, HarperCollins
• Soggy and the Mermaid, illustrator, Mabecron Books
• The Lion Who Ate Everything, illustrator, Walker
• The Little Dinosaur, author/illustrator, Walker
• A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope, author/illustrator, Walker
• Pirates Ahoy!, illustrator, Andersen Press
• The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure, author/illustrator, Walker
• Why the Animals Came to Town, author/illustrator, Walker
• Little Manfred illustrator
• A Medal for Leroy illustrator
• The Tortoise and the Soldier, author/illustrator, Henry Holt
• Noa and the Little Elephant, author/illustrator, HarperCollins Children's Books in association with Tusk Trust^[17]

Awards

• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award)
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award)
• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Kurt Maschler Award
• Bologna Children's Book Fair Graphics Prize
• Francis Williams Award for Illustration
• National Art Library Illustration Award
• Festival International du Livre Aigle d'Argent Award
• National Art Library Illustration Award
• Francis Williams Award for Illustration

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