Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A child's garden	Michael Foreman	Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a ble…	OL16260510W
Kaspar the Titanic cat	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman	Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are…	OL16596995W
Kaspar prince of cats	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman	Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's th…	OL16798841W
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman,Michael Foreman	The quest of Sir Gawain for the Green Knight teaches him a lesson in pride, humility, and honor.	OL18355129W
Michael Foreman's world of fairy tales	Michael Foreman	The acclaimed illustrator has selected twenty-two fairy tales from all around the world. Includes the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Edna O'Brien, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Alderson, and traditional t…	OL18842060W
The Puffin book of twentieth-century children's stories	Judith Elkin,Michael Foreman	Seventy-three extracts from books published between 1902 and 1989 for children ages eight to fourteen reflect the best writing from England, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Includes bi…	OL19431611W
Little albatross	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman	Little Albatross sits snug in the warmth of Mother Albatross' feathers. He grows bigger and stronger until one day Mother and Father Albatross go fishing, leaving Little Albatross alone for the first…	OL19681014W
The seeds of friendship	Michael Foreman	<b>How can Adam bring the green warmth of home to his new urban world? An inspiring fable about making friendship grow.	OL20008426W
A life in pictures	Michael Foreman	Michael Foreman's work can be found on countless bookshelves across the world and has had a profound impact on illustration. This long-awaited retrospective traces his life as an artist and master st…	OL24282216W
I'll Take You to Mrs Cole	Nigel Gray,Michael Foreman,Wen Zhuge	Threatened with a visit to Mrs. Cole by his working mother whenever he doesn't get his chores done in her absence, a young boy finally searches out the woman on his own and finds out what "awful" thi…	OL2449970W
Cat & canary	Michael Foreman	A city cat who lives out his fantasy of being able to fly finds that staying on the ground isn't so bad after all.	OL3010113W
Cat in the manger	Michael Foreman	A small cat reminisces about events that took place around the manger where it was sleeping on the night the baby Jesus was born.	OL3010114W
Chicken Licken	Foreman,Michael Foreman	Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy.	OL3010116W
Dinosaurs and all that rubbish	Peter Pontzen,Michael Foreman,David Wood	Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Young readers will love finding out why in this classic environmental tale from best-selling author/illustrator …	OL3010117W
Land of dreams	Michael Foreman	While exploring the land of dreams, an old man and a boy piece together the fragments of unfinished dreams and lost hopes, give them shape, and send them around the world again.	OL3010123W
The littlest dinosaur	Michael Foreman	The littlest dinosaur thinks he is too small to do much of anything, until his family and neighbors are in trouble and need his help.	OL3010127W
The travels of Horatio	Michael Foreman	An unhappy young hippo sets out to see the world beyond the jungle and returns home famous.	OL3010149W
War Game	Michael Foreman	Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who hav…	OL3010155W
Ben's Box	Michael Foreman	Ben plays with the box his mother's new washing machine came in, pretending it is a spaceship, a submarine, and a ledge for battling dragons.	OL3010160W
Hello, world	Michael Foreman	A young bear and a child invite all the animals they meet to come with them to see the wonders of the world around them.	OL3010166W