Raymond Briggs
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Age | 90 |
| Date of birth | January 18,1934 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Wimbledon |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Jean Briggs |
| Parents | Ethel Briggs |
| Ernest Briggs | |
| Job | Author |
| Illustrator | |
| Cartoonist | |
| Screenwriter | |
| Novelist | |
| Graphic Novelist | |
| Education | University College London |
| Wimbledon College of Arts | |
| Rutlish School | |
| Slade School of Fine Art | |
| Movies/Shows | Ethel & Ernest |
| The Snowman and the Snowdog | |
| Ivor the Invisible | |
| The Bear | |
| Father Christmas | |
| When the Wind Blows | |
| The Snowman | |
| Awards | Kate Greenaway Medal |
| Horn Book Award | |
| British Book Award | |
| Area | graphic novelist |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 439076 |
Gentleman Jim
Ug
Jim and the beanstalk
The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman
Notes from the Sofa
The Snowman and the Snowdog
The Bear
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
Mother Goose Treasury
The Man
The Snowman and the Snowdog Pop-up Picture Book
Unlucky Wally
The Puddleman
Blooming Books (Signed)
The Father Christmas: It's a Blooming Terrible Joke Book
The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes
The Adventures of Bert
All in a Day
The Fairy Tale Treasury
The snowman tell-the-time book
The strange house
Ivor the Invisible
The Snowdog
Ben a un chien !
The Complete Father Christmas
Collected Poems for Children
Midnight adventure
Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales
The Snowman: Things to Touch and Feel, See and Sniff
Ring-a-Ring O' Roses
Walking in the Air
The Fungus Big Green Bogey Book
Sledges to the Rescue
The Snowman: A Pop-up Book with Music
The Party
The Snowman - A Puppet Play Book
Unlucky Wally Twenty Years on
Dressing Up
Sacré père Noël
The tale of three landlubbers
Forbidden Forest, and Other Stories
Babbo Natale
Father Christmas Magnetic Playscene
The Snowman: Storybook and Magical Pop-Up Snowglobe
Big Billy's Scrapbook
The Snowman Soft Toy
Father Christmas
Ethel and Ernest
When the Wind Blows
Fungus the Bogeyman
Raymond Briggs Life story
Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his story ...
The Snowman 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint for Christmas
A new collectable coin celebrating The Snowman has been launched by the Royal Mint .
The design retells about James, a young boy who builds a snowman that comes to life.
It is The First of The Mint 's 50p Christmas coins to feature the official coinage portrait of King Charles .
First published in 1978, The Snowman has sold More Than 5. 5 million copies around The World .
The 2023 coin design is The Sixth Snowman edition to be added to the Royal Mint 's Christmas series.
Rebecca Morgan, director of collector services at the Royal Mint , said: " Continuing Our Partnership with award-winning illustrator Robin Shaw , We Are excited to release another original festive coin that brings Raymond Briggs 's story to life in a new way.
" This year's edition of The Snowman coin is particularly special, being The First of our Christmas coins with King Charles III's effigy on its obverse.
" We hope that people love the coin's design and look to collect a piece of British Christmas history. "
Author-illustrator Briggs died last August at the Age Of 88.
The Snowman was turned into a Bafta TV award-winning animated TV film in 1982.
It also received an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.
It was first broadcast on Boxing Day 1982 and has been shown almost every Christmas since.
The Film is dialogue free, the Only Words featuring in The Hit song taken from it, Howard Blake 's Walking in the Air.
Sung on screen by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty , the recorded version was performed by Bangor-born Aled Jones - who was then 14-years-old - and it reached the UK Top Five in 1985.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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