Summary
These Native American myths and legends incl ude the story of Hiawatha, the Mohawk medicine man, and the legend of young Tenas Tyee, so clean and pure that he was ab le to destroy the terrible two-headed sea-serpent with its h eart of greed. '
Michael Foreman was born in Pakefield, Suffolk on March 21, 1938. At the age of fifteen, Foreman began to study art. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. He earned his M. A. from the Royal College of Art and since then, has written and/or illustrated many children's books.
After leaving art school Michael traveled all over the world making films and television commercials. He has also worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, and TV ads. He even worked for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses.
Foreman has won 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.
(Bowker Author Biography)
