When it comes to cajoling the nation into the Christmas spirit, Raymond Briggs has been doing the ... Alongside seasonal favourites The Snowman and Father Christmas, the beloved illustrator ...

The two-minute clip begins with Father Christmas explaining how his classic red coat has become worn from its use across the years. However, this hasn’t gone unnoticed by Mrs Christmas ...

Over the last half century - much to his horror - Raymond Briggs ... about a grumpy Father Christmas have become bestsellers. The film adaptation of his 1978 picture book 'The Snowman' has been ...

Author-illustrator Raymond Briggs ... titles in the 1970s such as Father Christmas, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, Fungus the Bogeyman and, of course, The Snowman. The following decade he ...

Father Christmas returns to The Drum this festive season! This stage adaptation of the famous Raymond Briggs’ book was so popular with Plymouth audiences last year that it’s back in town until ...

Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas, the cartoon that renders Jolly Old St Nick about as curmudgeonly about the festive season as I am until I have a mince pie in my hand and reindeer antlers on my ...

The author-illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for his 1978 work The Snowman, has died at the age of 88. Best children’s books for the summer holidays Top ten heroes and villains of children ...

Raymond Redvers ... for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas. Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 ...