Michael Foreman
Forfatter af War Boy: A Country Childhood
Om forfatteren
Michael Foreman was born in Pakefield, Suffolk on March 21, 1938. At the age of fifteen, Foreman began to study art. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. He earned his M. A. from the Royal College of Art and since then, has written and/or illustrated many children's vis mere books. After leaving art school Michael traveled all over the world making films and television commercials. He has also worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, and TV ads. He even worked for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Award twice, the Smarties Book Prize, The Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis William's Illustration Award twice. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Michael Foreman
The Tortoise and the Soldier: A Story of Courage and Friendship in World War I (2015) 45 eksemplarer
Noa and the Little Elephant: An important story about friendship and saving the elephants (2021) 5 eksemplarer
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories: Oxford Level 11: Thumbelina Pack 6 (2017) 4 eksemplarer
The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure 3 eksemplarer
Basta un ciao. Ediz. a colori 1 eksemplar
Pai! Não Consigo Dormir Livro 1 1 eksemplar
Unsere Welt für alle 1 eksemplar
Die Ruckkehr Der Dinosaurier. 1 eksemplar
Não me pega! 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1964) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 1,131 eksemplarer
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II (1997) — Illustrator — 517 eksemplarer
Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk and Fairy Stories (1986) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 122 eksemplarer
The Arabian Nights: Or, Tales Told by Sheherezade During a Thousand Nights and One Night (Books of Wonder) (1992) — Illustrator; Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 90 eksemplarer
City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament (1980) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 82 eksemplarer
The Puffin Book of 20th Century Children's Verse (Puffin Books) (1991) — Illustrator — 65 eksemplarer
The Night Before Christmas: A Lift-the-Flaps Rebus Pop-up Book (1988) — Illustrator — 48 eksemplarer
The Crab That Played With the Sea (Just So Stories) (1982) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 32 eksemplarer
Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems (1986) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 24 eksemplarer
Beyond the Rainbow Warrior: A Collection of Stories to Celebrate 25 Years of Green Peace (1995) — Illustrator — 11 eksemplarer
Pirates Ahoy!: Number 4 of the Bobby and Charlton stories series (2009) — Illustrator — 5 eksemplarer
"I'm For You -- And You're For Me" — Illustrator — 3 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Foreman, Michael S
- Fødselsdato
- 1938-03-21
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Pakefield, Suffolk, England, UK
- Bopæl
- London, England, UK
Pakefield, Suffolk, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Lowestoft School of Art (national diploma in design ∙ 1958)
Royal College of Art (A.R.C.A. with first-class honours ∙ 1963) - Erhverv
- children's book author
graphic artist
illustrator - Organisationer
- Chelsea Arts
- Kort biografi
- Lecturer in graphics at St. Martin's School of Art, London, England, 1963-66, London College of Printing, 1966-68, Royal College of Art, London, 1968-70, and Central School of Art, London, 1971-72. Art director of Ambit, beginning 1960, Playboy, 1965, and King, 1966-67. Elected Royal Designer to Industry, 1985. Exhibitions: Work exhibited in solo show at Royal Festival Hall, London, England, 1985, as well as in Europe, North America, and Japan.
son of Walter Thomas (a crane operator) and Gladys Foreman; married Janet Charters, September 26, 1959 (divorced 1966); married Louise Phillips, December 22, 1980; children: (first marriage) Mark; (second marriage) Ben Shahn, Jack
Awards: Festival International du Livre Silver Eagle Award, France, 1972; Francis Williams Memorial awards, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1972, and 1977, for Monkey and the Three Wizards; Kate Greenaway Commended Book designation, British Library Association (BLA), 1978, for The Brothers Grimm: Popular Folk Tales; Carnegie Medal, BLA, and Kate Greenaway Highly Commended Book designation, both 1980, and Graphics Prize, International Children's Book Fair (Bologna, Italy), 1982, all for City of Gold, and Other Stories from the Old Testament; Kate Greenaway Medal, and Kurt Maschler (Emil) Award, British Book Trust, both 1982, both for Sleeping Beauty, and Other Favourite Fairy Tales; Kate Greenaway Medal, 1982, for Longneck and Thunderfoot; Federation of Children's Book Groups award, England, 1983, for The Saga of Erik the Viking; Kate Greenaway Commended Book designation, and New York Times Notable Book designation, both 1985, both for Seasons of Splendour; Signal Poetry award, 1987, for Early in the Morning; named honorary fellow, Royal College of Arts, 1989; Kate Greenaway Medal, and W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Award, both 1990, both for War Boy; Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award, 1993, for War Game, and Silver Award, 1997, for The Little Reindeer; honorary degree from Plymouth University, 1998 [1972, 1972, 1977] (BLA ∙ Bologna ∙ Italy ∙ Emil)
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Mia's Story: A Sketchbook of Hopes & Dreams af Michael Foreman
A first person account of meeting a girl named Mia who lives in Chile, between the big city and the snowy mountains. Mia and her family live off what the city throws away. Their house is built of odds and ends, though her father dreams of building a house of bricks. The people in her village are very clever about fixing what they find. Her father sells scrap in the city every day and one day he returns with a puppy for her. But during the hard winter, Poco the puppy disappears, so Mia sets out on the horse called Sancho to look for her throughout the dumps. She searches far and wide, until she finds herself up in the mountains above the city and her village. She and Sancho enjoy the beauty and the solitude of the spot. Though they don't find Poco, they do find some white flowers on the way back down and Mia gathers a clump of them to take home and remind her of "how she looked for Poco and found this place in the stars." Back home, she plants the flowers and their seeds spread , creating beauty in the dumps. Eventually she asks her father if she can try to sell her white flowers in the city, and the business proves so profitable, her father gives up selling scraps to help her and work together towards their dream of a house of bricks. When people asked where she found such flowers, she always answered "They come from the stars." And whenever packs of dogs would run by, Mia would remember Poco -- and one day a dog stopped to smell the flowers and licked Mia's face.… (mere)
A comendable collection of festive crime from Folio.
This is the book that made me want to learn to read when I was a child. Happy to learn that my parents still have it (in German, of course).
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