Raymond Briggs, the British author and illustrator of the classic children’s books Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), and The Snowman (1978), died on 9 August, aged 88. Briggs was ...

“To make a children’s book, you have to cut yourself off from a lot of the bullshit that happens when you’re a grownup,” says Michael Roberts, Vanity Fair’s fashion and style director, and the author ...

‘The Snowman’ was published 40 years ago this Christmas. Suzanne Harrington charts its rise from unknown book to festive classic. Sat, 01 Dec, 2018 - 09:00 ‘The Snowman’ was published 40 years ago ...

An author and illustrator of children’s books sensitive to emotions, he used comic-strip-like panels to explore the joys and struggles of workaday British life. By Jason M. Bailey Raymond Briggs, the ...

To mark the 40th anniversary of the classic Christmas story, The Snowman, author Michael Morpurgo has written his own version of the novel. Originally published as a picture book by author Raymond ...

Peter Mendelsund, an associate art director at Knopf, as well as an art director at Pantheon and Vertical Press, is the force behind some of today’s most recognizable covers: the Stieg Larsson books, ...

A special new 50p coin has been released to mark 40 years since children's classic The Snowman was published. The Royal Mint, together with Penguin Ventures has today announced that a new coin ...

Once Upon a Snowman will fill in the gap between the moment Elsa creates Olaf, and the time he meets Anna and Kristoff. We know that Olaf is based on the snowman that Elsa used to conjure for her ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the classic Christmas story, The Snowman. Originally published as a picture book by author Raymond Briggs in 1978, it captured the hearts of audiences around ...