Troon Harrison, Author, Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-248842-0
To celebrate his fifth birthday, James and his mother spend a long weekend at the beach. Each day, James plays in the sand, building roads, farmhouses and castles. Unfortunately, the luxuriously idle beach play that is so absorbing in real life...
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Michael Foreman, Author Anova Books $14.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-86205-290-1
Two books about Panda's travels to exotic lands are united in one volume. Ages 4-7. (Aug.)
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Michael Foreman, Author Arcade Publishing $16.95 (71p) ISBN 978-1-55970-178-5
Not just another quincentennial volume, this sweeping, original tale recounts the fictional adventures of Leif, an orphan boy recruited by Columbus to sail aboard the Santa Maria . Along with a skeleton crew, he is left behind on one of the islands...
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Michael Foreman, Author Atheneum Books $13.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-689-31492-6
With intuitiveness and creativity, Foreman has written a story about a child who is sometimes an angel, sometimes a wild man, but most often just a little boy. As an angel, the child is usually asleep, his golden head on his pillow. But when wild,...
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Michael Foreman, Author Arcade Publishing $16.45 (92p) ISBN 978-1-55970-049-8
Foreman, a much-lauded watercolor illustrator, has put together a book of reminiscence. Set in Suffolk during World War II, when Foreman was very young, the stories meander among small, intriguing details. Bomb shelters, local characters and...
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Michael Foreman, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-239496-7
Foreman's fluid watercolors lend themselves ably to this dreamy tale of a boy and his yarn-spinning grandfather. The old man is an artistic soul who has covered every square inch of his seaside home's interior with images of the deep. Each night at...
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Michael Foreman, Author Arcade Publishing $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55970-242-3
Dedicated to the memory of four uncles who died in WW I, Foreman's moving, informative follow-up to War Boy is crammed with concrete details and permeated with emotion. Freddie, Billy, Lacey and Will, youths from the English countryside, find...
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Michael Foreman, Author Arcade Publishing $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55970-329-1
Continuing the illustrated memoirs of childhood begun in his glowing War Boy (1990), Foreman casts his artistic vision on the years following WWII. A boy in an English coastal village, he thrills to the victory bonfires (""the embers remained hot...
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Michael Foreman, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-201399-8
Foreman's (The Little Ships, reviewed below) calm, inconspicuous prose follows a boy and a seal through three years of seasonal changes. It begins one springtime, when Ben, hunting for mussels with his granddad, spots a newborn seal nuzzling her...
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Michael Foreman, Author Anova Books $35 (191p) ISBN 978-1-86205-408-0
With a limited print run of 5,000 copies, signed and numbered by the author, Michael Foreman's Memories of Childhood combines his two autobiographical tales. Of the first, War Boy, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, PW wrote, ""A book to be savored
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Michael Foreman, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4041-2
Panda and his friend the winged Lion leave their African home to see the world, and usually food and drink are plentiful. But they are thirsty and hungry as they fly over a red, barren landscape. Eventually they find a place to sleep, and a Bunyip (a
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Michael Foreman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (29p) ISBN 978-0-06-021843-0
Foreman's picture book takes a warm, affectionate approach to the subject of a new sibling's arrival, presenting events through the eyes of a child who awaits the baby with eagerness rather than jealousy or fear. Three-year-old Ben has said he wants
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Michael Foreman. Holt, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-62779-173-1
Foreman (War Boy) offers a fresh variation on the wartime soldier and animal buddy theme. Based on actual events, the story is told in dual flashbacks. Trevor Roberts, a British journalist, recalls a formative assignment as a young reporter (“really,
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator . Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6677-7
The barn cat has the floor in this appealing addition to the "animals at the Nativity" mini-genre. Addressing the audience directly, the feline gives an eyewitness account of the miracle that occurred when some very special visitors arrived
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Michael Foreman. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7834-0
In his story about an African boy who has immigrated to a Western country, Foreman (I Love You, Too!) lets his artwork supply most of the information. Adam is from a “faraway place,” but he has moved to an apartment in a city. It’s exciting, but...
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Michael Foreman. Andersen Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-3451-6
Foreman (Friends) offers a familiar bedtime story with echoes of a modern classic of the genre, Guess How Much I Love You. As in that book, a young animal (in this case a golden-furred anthropomorphic bear) attempts to quantify his boundless love...
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3063-8
Foreman (Cat in the Manger) gives readers a portrait of a resourceful girl and an honest yet joyful look at a poverty-stricken family living outside of Santiago, Chile. His sketches, laid out on the page scrapbook-style, depict the shantytown in...
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator Candlewick $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4271-6
War has reduced a boy's home to ruins, and a heavily patrolled barbed-wire fence surrounds his land, keeping him from the verdant hills he loves (“The boy knew that cool streams flowed in those hills. He had once gone there with his...
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator . Walker $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9759-9
The title character of this predictable story seems destined for a life on the sidelines—if one of his neighbors doesn't accidentally step on him first. After all, “he's no bigger than a dinosaur's toe,” as his...
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2112-4
Foreman (A Trip to Dinosaur Time
) taps into a child's sense of wonder and discovery as he awakens to the world around him with this simple journey of a boy and his teddy bear. "Wake up, Baby," says the teddy bear to his young owner as...
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2104-9
"This is not a toy," warns Tom's mother as she heads to the neighbor's. "Don't play with it." But her new digital kitchen timer resembles a "flying saucer" and the temptation proves too great. Tom presses a button,
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Michael Foreman, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38500-2
Foreman's (War Boy) appealing, understated story opens as a team of boys arrives at a field for a soccer game. Teased by the others, the new boy is determined to "show them"—and he gets his chance. Remembering his father's...
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Michael Foreman. Andersen Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5124-3949-6
In a lightly suspenseful story, Foreman (The Tortoise and the Soldier) follows a Bedouin caravan across the desert, as a young camel named Jamal struggles to keep up. When a sandstorm strikes, Jamal is separated from his mama and baba, as well as...
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