Michael Foreman - Children's Author

Michael Foreman was our Guest Editor in March 2010 - click here - to see the books that inspired his writing.

Michael Foreman was born in Suffolk in 1938, and studied at Lowestoft School of Art, St Martin’s, London, and the Royal College of Art, where he won a scholarship to the USA in 1963. He has worked as an Art Director at Playboy and King magazines and still works as Art Editor of the literary journal Ambit.

He has also made animated films in Scandinavia and for the BBC. His first book, The General, (a picture book published in 1961), dealt with disarmament and received rave reviews. Since then he has illustrated more than thirty of his own books and over a hundred by authors as varied as Shakespeare, J.M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm and former Python, Terry Jones. He has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading illustrators and has won numerous prizes including the Smarties Prize, the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Francis Williams Prize (twice) and the Aigle d’Argent at the Festival International du Livre in France. Michael is married and has three sons.

He spends most of his time in London, but regularly visits St Ives, Cornwall, where he owns the painter Ben Nicholson’s old house.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Michael Foreman

Friends
Michael Foreman
Award-winning Michael Foreman puts an unlikely friendship at the heart of this captivating story of a cat and a fish who become such firm friends that the fish chooses friendship over freedom. Together the friends tour the world – especially...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Superfrog and the Big Stink
Michael Foreman
February 2013  Debut of the Month A delightful series of detailed pictures tell the eco-tale of Frank the Superfrog who is determined to prevent the rubbish building up in his favourite pond.  He bounds into action using a unique form of...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl
Michael Foreman
September 2012 Book of the Month. This wonderful fantasy tells how a group of mean-minded bullies are seen off by the feisty Origami Girl. When bullies try to steal Joey’s money from selling newspapers they find themselves in for a...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2012
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Friends
Michael Foreman
Award-winning Michael Foreman puts an unlikely friendship at the heart of this captivating story of a cat and a fish who become such firm friends that the fish chooses friendship over freedom. Together the friends tour the world – especially...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Oh! If Only ...
Michael Foreman
Includes a chain of events as one young boy and a dog unwittingly unleash the greatest havoc imaginable. Full Lovereading4kids review to follow soon...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Oh, If Only ...
Michael Foreman
Best-selling illustrator Michael Foreman tells a dramatic and action-packed chain-of-events story of what happens when a boy meets a dog with a ball. Young readers will love the ‘if only’ refrain as the boy chases the dog, who chases the...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Why the Animals Came to Town
Michael Foreman
Prize-winning illustrator Michael Foreman sends an important message about taking care of our planet so that all the creatures that live in it can be kept safe in this stunning picture book. When a small boy wakes in the night...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2011
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The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure
Michael Foreman
An awfully big adventure for the Littlest Dinosaur when a little walk turns into a night time drama. Alone in the middle of a big, dark forest the Littlest Dinosaur needs to be as brave as he can be. The he finds another...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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The General
Michael Foreman
As relevant as when it was first published, Michael Foreman’s very first book is beautifully reissued in this 50th anniversary edition. General Jodpur loves to train his soldiers making them the best fighting force in the world. But, one day,...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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Why the Animals Came to Town
Michael Foreman
Prize-winning illustrator Michael Foreman sends an important message about taking care of our planet so that all the creatures that live in it can be kept safe in this stunning picture book. When a small boy wakes in the night...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Cat in the Manger
Michael Foreman
A warm-hearted, beautifully told cat’s view of the Christmas story. The cat who lives in the manger is a cat with attitude, sometimes grumpy and often moaning but tonight it is looking forward to a quiet night with just the...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2009
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Wonder Goal!
Michael Foreman
Brilliantly capturing the thrill of scoring a winning goal whether at schoolboy or international level, this is a book for all aspiring footballers to dream over. Michael Foreman’s stunning and atmospheric illustrations evoke football in general and the magic of...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure
Michael Foreman
An awfully big adventure for the Littlest Dinosaur when a little walk turns into a night time drama. Alone in the middle of a big, dark forest the Littlest Dinosaur needs to be as brave as he can be. The...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope
Michael Foreman
This is a wonderful celebration of optimism and a thoughtful and touching book about the importance of growth, green shoots and new life in a war torn world. Growing up amidst rubble a small boy tends a green shoot which...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Littlest Dinosaur
Michael Foreman
A touching story about being different and not fitting in. The littlest dinosaur and the long necked dinosaur both find it hard to fit in because of their size. But when the littlest dinosaur needs help he turns to the...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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After the War Was Over
Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman makes history such fun and this book in particular is so inspirational.  It tells the story of life after World War Two as soldiers return to begin life back home with families who have been without them for...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/03/2007
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War Game
Michael Foreman
It was Christmas Day in the trenches in France during World War One and a remarkable football match took place. British and German soldiers put down their weapons and took up a game of football instead. For one day, the...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/10/2006
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The Little Reindeer
Michael Foreman
A wonderful Christmas story that is both enchanting and heartwarming.  Stunning illustrations by one of the UK’s foremost illustrators are complemented beautifully by some wonderful writing from him.  The Little Reindeer is a real adventure with an original twist and young...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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Seal Surfer
Michael Foreman
A moving and beautiful book encompassing friendship and disability, highly commended for the Special Educational Needs Book Award. A boy and his grandfather watch as a baby seal is born on the rocks near their home and from that day...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006
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Norman's Ark
Michael Foreman
A quirky, funny picture book story about a family visit to a safari park - Michael Foreman at his best! Norman is good little boy who never tells a lie. Honest. It’s just that sometimes his parents don’t believe him....
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Can't Catch Me!
Michael Foreman
No wonder Michael Foreman is one of our foremost writer’s and illustrator’s for young children.  Can’t Catch me is the perfect bedtime read as your young toddler will be taken on a delightful journey to all corners of the earth...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2005
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War Boy A Wartime Childhood
Michael Foreman
Brilliantly observed in words and pictures, War Boy is a first hand, eye-witness view of growing up in World War Two. Michael Foreman grew up in Lowestoft where bombing raids causing terrible damage were common as planes flew in over...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/10/2004
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One World
Michael Foreman
With a series of stunning watercolours, the multi award-winning Michael Foreman makes clear his underlying concern about pollution within the environment.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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