Michael Foreman
Author · 52 books
Michael has worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, TV adverts, and even for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. As well as illustrating many of his own books, Michael has illustrated over a hundred books for authors such as Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Michael has travelled widely - to Africa, Japan, the Arctic Circle, China and Malaysia, the Himalayas, Siberia and New Zealand - to research his books. "I do a lot of research when I'm travelling - I find it thrilling to discover the particular 'art' of different landscapes and work them into a book. But I find I have to travel by myself, otherwise I'm constantly getting involved in other people's impressions of a place... I try to be invisible when I'm travelling, so I tend to listen in on conversations rather than participate in them - I just want to look and draw."
Series
Books
The Best Christmas Present in the World
2004
Michael Foreman
A Life in Pictures
2016
Stubby
A True Story of Friendship
2018
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Jamal's Journey [Mar 28, 2017] Foreman, Michael
2017
Noa and the Little Elephant
An important story about friendship and saving the elephants
2021
Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes
2002
The Tortoise and the Soldier
A Story of Courage and Friendship in World War I
2015
After the War Was over
1995
Superfrog!
2011
Jack's Fantastic Voyage
1992
War Game
1993
Tufty
2016
The Folio Book of Christmas Crime Stories
2004
The Little Reindeer
1996
Hello, World
2003
Oh! If Only…
2011
Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl!
2012
The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha
2013
Grandfather's Pencil and the Room of Stories
1993
Why the Animals Came to Town
2009
Fox Tale
2006
Penguin by Illustrators
2009
A Child's Garden
2008
War Boy
A Country Childhood
1990
Seal Surfer
1996
Long Neck and Thunder Foot and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
1982
Dad! I Can't Sleep!
1994
Mia's Story
2006
A Trip to Dinosaur Time
2002
Michael Foreman's World of Fairy Tales
1990
Michael Foreman's Christmas Treasury
1999
The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army!
2015
Cat & Dog
2014
War and peas
1974
Cat on the Hill
2003
Wonder Goal!
2002
Fortunately, Unfortunately
2010
The Littlest Dinosaur
2008
I Love You Too!
2013
Friends
2012
Peter's Place
1995
Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish
1972
Superfrog and the Big Stink!
2013
Classic Fairy Tales
2005
Little Albatross
2004
The Two Giants
1967
Cat in the Manger
2000
The Seeds of Friendship
2015
Moose
1971
One World
1990
Cat and Canary
1985
The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure
2009
