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James Foley

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Born

Australia

Website

http://jamesfoley.com.au/

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Children's, Comics, Nonfiction

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January 2017

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James Foley makes children’s books for children who read books. If you’re a child and you’re eating his books, you’re doing it wrong.

He is the author and illustrator of many picture books and graphic novels, including Stellarphant, Happy Barry Capybara, Secret Agent Mole, Bigfoot vs Yeti: A Love Story, Dungzilla , Brobot, Gastronauts and Chickensaurus. A bunch of his books have won awards from the Children’s Book Council of Australia and the International Youth Library; more importantly they also have some pretty funny fart jokes in them.

James has 4 books coming in 2026: Happy Barry Capybara Gone Bananas, Fuzzball, Oh No! and Amazing Astro Animals.

He is an ambassador for Books In Homes, Room To Read and the Barking Gecko Theatre Company. ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 692 ratings · 159 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stellarphant 4.65 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goldfish-Finger (Secret Agent Mole, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brobot (S. Tinker Inc., #1) 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dungzilla (S. Tinker Inc., #2) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Lion 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Barry Capybara 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bigfoot vs Yeti 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chickensaurus (S. Tinker Inc., #4) 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gastronauts (S. Tinker Inc., #3) 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boar Identity (Secret Agent Mole, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The need for Human Intelligence (and the perils of Gen AI)

I just came across a wonderful grassroots campaign from 2024, started by an illustrator called Beth Spencer. In response to the beginnings of generative AI, she designed a logo with the words ‘Created With Human Intelligence’. Here’s her piece:

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She invited people to draw the logo in their style. So I had a go and made this:

Beth’s positive, community-centred logo was j

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James Foley wrote a new blog post The need for Human Intelligence (and the perils of Gen AI) I just came across a wonderful grassroots campaign from 2024, started by an illustrator called Beth Spencer. In response to the beginnings of generati Read more of this blog post »
Jul 19, 2026 02:58AM · like
James Foley made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — please delete a book entry topic " Hello librarians, I started to add a book to my page, and then discovered that it was already entered - my mistake! Could you please delete this entry ...more "
Mar 11, 2026 06:04AM
James Foley made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please add books to my author profile topic " Hello librarians, I've noticed a few books by me that are not linked to my author profile - would you be able to link them? It's these four: https://w ...more "
Mar 11, 2026 05:42AM
James Foley made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — please add cover to my book topic " Hello librarians, I added a new book but I neglected to add a cover - apologies! Could you please add it for me? The book is https://www.goodreads.com ...more "
Mar 11, 2026 05:39AM
James Foley made a comment on Shannon Shea’s review of Stellarphant " Hi Shannon, thanks for the review! I’ve never been to Gaithersburg so it wasn’t me you heard, but I’m glad someone was spruiking the book and you got ...more "
Nov 01, 2025 09:10AM · see review
James Foley made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Gastronauts (colour edition) topic " Hello goodreads librarians, could you please add this book to my page? Thanks so much, James Title: Gastronauts (colour edition) * Author(s) name(s): Jam ...more "
Dec 23, 2024 09:10PM