Talk:Michael Foreman (illustrator)

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Currently the "partial" bibliography section is overwhelming the rest of the article. I think we should be far more selective about which works are significant ones - I'd say 10-12 at most. Thryduulf (talk) 11:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

True.

If he is sufficiently important, then a separate and complete Michael Foreman bibliography is appropriate, covering all print publications as writer or illustrator. See WP:BIB. --P64 (talk) 22:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless I have extended this Selected works (simply a new heading) from 2005 to 2010 by copy-and-paste from the "Bibliography" at British Council: Literature (Foreman at BCL). I have corrected two spelling errors but have matched our format only by inverting BCL's reverse chronological order.

My WP:COMMENTs in this section report that our list and the one at external link March House Books[1] are identical to mid-2005 (one is the copy-and-paste source of the other) and to mid-2004 those two apparently match BCL (in content and most points of format).

Foreman at BCL: Biography (select "Read more") and Critical perspective (select "Read more") may be worth checking as sources. --both whether they have been used here with insufficient attribution and whether they may be useful here.

--P64 (talk) 01:08, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

{{Authority control}} in the article footer links LC and other catalog data.

1982a, 1982b, and 1989 winners at Greenaway Medal Living Archive (2007?)

--P64 (talk) 22:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article now gives those three Living Archive references for the facts that MF won the two Greenaway Medals for the three books. --[I have used them] not for any content, either biographical or substantial citation of his award-winning work

--P64 (talk) 01:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Guardian coverage. "Fresh vision: Joanna Carey talks to Michael Foreman, whose career as an illustrator spans 40 years" 25 Apr 2000

--P64 (talk) 01:05, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More from The Guardian. Evidently Joanna Carey now has a series of articles/galleries on "Great children's illustrators"[2]

"Michael Foreman: life through a line". Joanna Carey. The Guardian 4 March 2011

"Michael Foreman – a life in pictures". Michael Foreman. guardian.co.uk 7 March 2011 —an 11-picture gallery

--P64 (talk) 03:12, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Memoir. Of course Foreman's 1989 memoir War Boy may be a useful source here.

WorldCat library records report alternative subtitles "A country childhood" and "A wartime childhood". Those are supported by WorldCat and CILIP cover images (country childhood [3] [4]; wartime childhood [5]).

Plausibly "A wartime childhood" dates from a 2006 new edition —in which case the 1991 [6] and 1989[7] dates given for one record (in two views) are both mistaken (taking information about copyright or previous edition or printing as the publication date).

Beside the front cover image including subtitle displayed there, we should ascertain how the 2006 "New edition" differs. It may be 96pp rather than 92pp. Does it include new memoir text, new memoir illustration, new front or back material, or merely new layout/pagination?

--P64 (talk) 01:27, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gollancz/Foreman series of classics and retellings

City of Gold (book)#Origin, by Peter Dickinson (Gollancz, 1980) was one in a series of Gollancz/Foreman series probably inaugurated 1976. I don't know whether Joanna Goldsworthy was the series editor or merely Dickinson's editor (which she was). Here is that article's new Note c, extended.

Gollancz had published Hans Anderson: his classic fairy tales in 1976 and Popular Folk Tales newly translated from Brothers Grimm by Brian Alderson in 1978. Foreman had been a Greenaway "Commended" runner up for the latter and he finally won the British children's book illustration medal for Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales selected and translated from Perrault and Le Prince de Beaumont by Angela Carter, published in 1982.
• for Michael Foreman: two others in the series may be A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas 1983 [Dickens original, i presume] and du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre in 1987. Our biography lists Seasons of Splendour: Tales, myths, and legends of India [retold by?] Madhur Jaffrey but published by Pavilion Books (estab. 1981) in 1985 -
• other candidates from our Foreman list: The Arabian Nights 1992, Shakespeare Stories II 1995;
• also new title The Brothers Grimm: Popular Folk Tales 1990

--P64 (talk) 18:27, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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