Michael Foreman Press Reviews
Praise for some of Michael Foreman's picture books:
Michael Foreman is deservedly in the first rank of children's illustrators with his mastery of brilliant watercolours. The Sunday Times
Michael Foreman has a flair for turning a book into a special occasion. Quentin Blake
Delightful... Foreman puts across a serious message but in a format which is understandable to young children The School Librarian
Great illustrations for emergent readers to talk about EYE
Michael Foreman's watercolours are a perfect conduit for this nature-loving story and there is some evocative writing which demonstrates his undoubted sincerity. Books for Keeps
About Michael Foreman
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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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