If anyone was destined to create a book helping children to know the futility of war, and to do so without judging those who fight in them, it was Michael Foreman. Of his four uncles three died in the First World War and one, called Christmas, died of wounds on the first Christmas Day after…
This is Michael Foreman’s first book, written by his then wife Janet Charters, and it sets a course he has followed for sixty years of illustrating and creating children’s books, often with a theme of peace. General Jodhpur would really like to be the most famous general in the world, until one day a fox…
A simple tale of hope, it may help a child who is wondering about how the world is that people find it hard to manage without barbed wire divisions. Gardens are not only unfazed by fences, they may actually use them to grow up and through and over. And the patience of a small boy,…
