Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman is possibly one of the most popular and prolific illustrators of modern children's books. Born in Suffolk in 1938, he grew up near Lowestoft and studied at Lowestoft School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art, where he won a scholarship to the U.S. After graduating, he lectured at St Martin's School of Art and then moved to Chicago where he worked as Art director at Playboy. He later returned to London and worked as Art Director of King. He returned to lecturing in 1967 and has since worked at the Royal College of Art, the London School of Printing and the Central School of Art.

His career as an illustrator began in 1961 when he illustrated the Comic Alphabet written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Over the years, he has illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Rudyard Kipling and many others as well as writing and illustrating his own books. He has also designed Christmas stamps for the Post Office and regularly contributed to American and European magazines. Michael Foreman is an award-winning illustrator of over 180 books his array of prizes includes 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). Exhibitions of his work have been held in Europe, America and Japan.

First editions of his early works are now sought after and rapidly increasing in value. His more recent work is still fairly easily found and should appreciate in value over the coming years.

Some of the many books written and/or illustrated by Michael Foreman between 1961 and 2010

1961 Comic Alphabet (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1961 The General (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1962 Poems by Children 1950-61 (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1963 The King Who Lived on Jelly (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (illustrator) Allen & Unwin

1966 Huit Enfants et un Bebe (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman

1966 Making Music (illustrator) Longman

1966 The Bad Food Guide (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1967 I'm for You, and You're for Me (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman

1967 The Perfect Present (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1967 The Two Giants (author/illustrator) Brockhampton Press

1968 Let's Fight! and Other Russian Fables (illustrator) Pantheon (U.S.)

1968 The Great Sleigh Robbery (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1969 Essex Poems, 1963-67 (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul

1970 Adam's Balm (illustrator) Bowmar (U.S.)

1970 Horatio (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1970 The Birthday Unicorn (illustrator) Gollancz

1971 James and the Giant Peach (an adaptation) (illustrator) Penguin

1971 Moose (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1971 The Living Arts of Nigeria (illustrator) Studio Vista

1973 Alexander in the Land of Mog (illustrator) Brockhampton Press

1973 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (illustrator) Allen & Unwin

1973 Mr Noah and the Second Flood (illustrator) Gollancz

1973 The Living Treasures of Japan (illustrator) Wildwood House

1973 The Pushcart War (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1974 War and Peas (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1975 Private Zoo (illustrator) Collinsn

1975 Rainbow Rider (illustrator) Collins

1976 Hans Andersen: His Classic Fairy Tales (illustrator) Gollancz

1976 Monkey and the Three Wizards (illustrator) Collins

1976 The Stone Book (illustrator) Collins

1977 Granny Reardun (illustrator) Collins

1977 Panda's Puzzle (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1977 Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman (illustrator) Andersen Press

1977 Tom Fobble's Day (illustrator) Collins

1978 Borrowed Feathers and Other Fables (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1978 Mickey's Kitchen Contest (illustrator) Andersen Press

1978 Popular Folk Tales: The Brothers Grimm (illustrator) Gollancz

1978 The Aimer Gate (illustrator) Collins

1978 The Princess and the Golden Mane (illustrator) Collins

1978 The Selfish Giant (illustrator) Kaye & Ward

1979 Alan The Three Golden Heads of the Well (illustrator) Collins

1979 How to Catch a Ghost (illustrator) Holt (U.S.)

1979 The Golden Brothers (illustrator) Collins

1979 Winter's Tales (author) Benn

1980 After Many a Summer (illustrator) Folio Society

1980 Alan Garner's Fairytales of Gold (illustrator) Collins

1980 City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament (illustrator) Gollancz

1980 The Faithful Bull (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1980 The Pig Plantagenet (illustrator) Hutchinson

1980 The Tiger Who Lost his Stripes (illustrator) Andersen Press

1981 Fairy Tales (illustrator) Pavilion

1981 Over the Bridge (illustrator) Viking Kestrel

1981 Panda and the Old Lion (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1981 The Nightingale and the Rose (illustrator)Kaye & Ward

1981 Trick a Tracker (author/illustrator) Gollancz

1982 Land of Dreams (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1982 Long Neck and Thunder Foot (illustrator) Viking Kestrel

1982 Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (illustrator) Gollancz

1982 The Crab That Played with the Sea (illustrator) Macmillan

1982 The Magic Mouse and the Millionaire (illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1983 A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (illustrator) Gollancz

1983 Poems for 7-Year-Olds and Under (illustrator) Viking Kestrel

1983 The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake (illustrator) Methuen

1983 The Saga of Eric the Viking (illustrator) Pavilion

1983 Treasure Island (illustrator) Puffin

1984 A Cat and Mouse Love Story (illustrator) Heinemann Quixote

1984 Cat and Canary (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1984 Panda and the Bunyips (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1984 Poems for 9-year-olds (illustrator) Viking Kestrel

1984 Poems for Over 10-year-olds (illustrator) Viking Kestrel

1985 I'll Take You to Mrs Cole (illustrator) Andersen Press

1985 Nicobobinus (illustrator) Pavilion

1985 Poetic Gems (illustrator) Folio Society

1986 Ben's Box: A Pop-up Fantasy (author/illustrator) Hodder & Stoughton

1986 Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems (illustrator) Viking

1986 Letters from Hollywood (illustrator) Harrap

1986 Panda and the Bushfire (author/illustrator) Hamish Hamilton

1986 Tales for the Telling (illustrator) Pavilion

1987 Ben's Baby (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1987 Brontosaurus Superstar (illustrator) Magnet

1987 du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (illustrator) Gollancz

1987 Fun (illustrator) Gollancz

1987 Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka (illustrator) Unwin Hyman

1987 The Jungle Book (illustrator) Puffin

1988 Edmond Went Far Away (illustrator) Walker Macmillan

1988 The Angel and the Wild Animal ((author/illustrator)) Andersen Press

1988 The Curse of the Vampire's Socks (illustrator) Pavilion

1988 The Magic Ointment (illustrator) Macmillan

1988 The Night Before Christmas (illustrator) Viking

1988 Worms Wiggle (author/illustrator) Carnival

1989 Land of the Long White Cloud (illustrator) Pavilion

1989 Once Upon a Planet (illustrator) Puffin

1989 The Sand Horse (illustrator) Andersen Press

1989 War Boy: A Country Childhood (author/illustrator) Pavilion

1990 Michael Foreman (author/illustrator) Beetles

1990 Michael Foreman's Mother Goose (illustrator) Walker

1990 Michael Foreman's World of Fairy Tales (illustrator) Pavilion

1990 One World (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1990 The Brothers Grimm: Popular Folk Tales (illustrator) Gollancz

1991 Busy! Busy! Busy! (illustrator) Andersen Press

1991 Michael Foreman's Nursery Rhymes (illustrator) Walker

1991 The Boy Who Sailed with Columbus (author/illustrator) Pavilion

1991 The Puffin Book of Twentieth-Century Stories (illustrator) Viking

1991 The Puffin Book of Twentieth-Century Verse (illustrator) Viking

1991 The Young Man of Cury and Other Poems (illustrator) Macmillan

1992 Fantastic Stories (illustrator) Pavilion

1992 Jack's Fantastic Voyage (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1992 Spider the Horrible Cat (illustrator) Pavilion

1992 The Arabian Nights (illustrator) Gollancz

1992 The Echoing Green (illustrator) Viking

1992 Wyvern Winter (illustrator) Andersen Press

1993 A Fish of the World (illustrator) Pavilion

1993 Funnybunch: A New Puffin Book of Funny Verse (illustrator) Viking

1993 Grandfather's Pencil (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1993 The Beast with a Thousand Teeth (illustrator) Pavilion

1993 The Long Weekend (illustrator) Andersen Press

1993 There's a Bear in the Bath (illustrator) Pavilion

1993 Wyvern Spring (illustrator) Andersen Press

1994 Arthur, High King of Britain (illustrator) Pavilion/The National Trust

1994 Dad! I Can't Sleep (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1994 Sarah and the Sandhorse (illustrator) Andersen Press

1994 The Fly-by-Night (illustrator) Pavilion

1994 The Sea Tiger (illustrator) Pavilion

1994 Wyvern Fall (illustrator) Andersen Press

1994 Wyvern Summer (illustrator) Andersen Press

1995 After the War was Over (author/illustrator) Pavilion

1995 Peter's Place (illustrator) Andersen Press

1995 Shakespeare Stories II (illustrator) Gollancz

1995 Surprise! Surprise! (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1995 The Little Prince (illustrator) Pavilion

1996 A Child's Garden of Verses (illustrator) Gollancz

1996 Peter Pan and Wendy (illustrator) Pavilion

1996 Robin of Sherwood (illustrator) Pavilion

1996 Seal Surfer (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1996 The Little Reindeer (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1996 The Songs My Paddle Sings (illustrator) Pavilion

1996 There's a Bear in the Classroom (illustrator) Pavilion

1997 Creation: Stories from Around the World (illustrator) Walker

1997 Farm Boy (illustrator) Pavilion

1997 Look! Look! (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1997 The Knight and the Squire (illustrator) Pavilion

1997 The Little Ships (illustrator) Pavilion

1998 Chicken Licken (illustrator) Andersen Press

1998 Cockadoodle-doo Mr Sultana! (illustrator) Scholastic

1998 Jack's Big Race (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1998 Joan of Arc (illustrator) Pavilion

1999 Kensuke's Kingdom (illustrator) Heinemann

1999 Michael Foreman's Christmas Treasury (author/illustrator) Pavilion

1999 The Little Red Hen (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

1999 The Merrymaid of Zennor (illustrator) Orchard

1999 The Rainbow Bear (illustrator) Doubleday

1999 The Shining Princess and Other Japanese Legends (illustrator) Andersen Press

1999 The Story of Millennia the Angel (illustrator) Orchard

1999 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (illustrator) Pavilion

2000 Billy the Kid (illustrator) Pavilion

2000 Cat in the Manger (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2000 Memories of Childhood (author/illustrator) Pavilion

2000 Rock-a-doodle-doo! (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2000 The Lady and the Squire (illustrator) Pavilion

2000 Why Bear has a Stumpy Tail (illustrator) Walker

2001 Out of the Ashes (illustrator) Macmillan

2001 Saving Sinbad (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2001 The Wind in the Willows (illustrator) Pavilion

2001 Tom and the Pterosaur (illustrator) Walker

2001 Toro! Toro! (illustrator) Collins

2002 Bedtime Stories (illustrator) Chrysalis

2002 Cool! (illustrator) Collins

2002 Dinosaur Time (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2002 Evie and the Man who Helped God (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2002 Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes (author/illustrator) Walker

2002 The Last Wolf (illustrator) Doubleday

2002 The Sleeping Sword (illustrator) Egmont

2002 Wonder Goal (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2003 Bobby, Charlton and the Mountain (illustrator) Andersen Press

2003 Cat on the Hill (author/illustrator) Andersen Press

2003 Hello World (author/illustrator) Walker

2004 Dolphin Boy (illustrator) Andersen Press

2004 Gentle Giant (illustrator) Collins

2004 Sir Gawain & the green knight (illustrator) Walker

2004 Alice's adventures in Wonderland (illustrator) Sterling

2004 One world (author/illustrator) Anderson Press

2004 Christmas crimes (illustrator) Folio Society

2005 Classic fairy tales (illustrator) Sterling

2005 The amazing story of Adolphus Tips (illustrator) Harper Collins

2005 Can't Catch Me!, author/illustrator, Andersen Press

2006 Beowulf, illustrator, Candlewick

2006 Fox Tale, author/illustrator, Andersen Press

2006 Mia's Story, author/illustrator, Walker

2006 Norman's Ark, author/illustrator, Andersen Press

2007 Michael Foreman's Classic Fairy Tales, adapter/illustrator, Pavilion

2007 Say Hello, illustrator, Walker

2007 Soggy the Bear, illustrator, Mabecron Books

2007 Soggy to the Rescue, illustrator, Mabecron Books

2007 Team Trouble, illustrator, Andersen Press

2007 The Mozart Question, illustrator, Walker

2007 White Owl, Barn Owl, illustrator, Candlewick

2008 Kaspar, illustrator, HarperCollins

2008 Soggy and the Mermaid, illustrator, Mabecron Books

2008 The Lion Who Ate Everything, illustrator, Walker

2008 The Little Dinosaur, author/illustrator, Walker

2009 A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope, author/illustrator, Walker

2009 Pirates Ahoy!, illustrator, Andersen Press

2009 The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure, author/illustrator, Walker

2010 Why the Animals Came to Town, author/illustrator, Walker