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Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes book cover
Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes
2002
First Published
3.13
Average Rating
112
Number of Pages

One of the world’s great picture book artists presents a delightful collection of playtime rhymes, illustrated with characteristic brilliance - and offering easy-to-follow instructions for playing along. In this sumptuous volume, leading children’s book illustrator Michael Foreman showcases scores of the best-loved, most exuberant action rhymes, each one acted out by an appealing little bear and a colorful supporting cast of children, animals, and others! This beautiful book is bursting with more than seventy rhymes, A sailor went to sea, sea, sea Here we go round the mulberry bush Hush little baby, don’t say a word Old MacDonald had a farm Ring-around-the-rosy The farmer in the dell The itsy bitsy spider You put your right arm in And, oh yes - the actions to accompany these rollicking rhymes are spelled out at the back of the book, so there’s no excuse for not joining in!

Avg Rating
3.13
Number of Ratings
16
5 STARS
13%
4 STARS
19%
3 STARS
44%
2 STARS
19%
1 STARS
6%
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Author

Michael Foreman
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."
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