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Raymond Briggs

January 26, 2023

For the British general, see Raymond Briggs (British Army officer). For the American general, see Raymond Westcott Briggs.

Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022)[1] was 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 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.[2]

Raymond Briggs
CBE
Briggs in 1983
BornRaymond Redvers Briggs
(1934-01-18)18 January 1934
Wimbledon, England
Died9 August 2022(2022-08-09) (aged 88)
Brighton, England
Area(s)
  • Artist
  • writer
  • cartoonist
  • graphic novelist
  • illustrator
Notable works
Awards
Spouse(s)
Jean Briggs
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(m. 1963; died 1973)​

Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.[3][4] For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.[5] For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.[6][7] He was a patron of the Association of Illustrators.[8]

Early life

Raymond Redvers Briggs was born on 18 January 1934 in Wimbledon, Surrey (now London), to Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930.[9][10] During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Dorset before returning to London at the end of the war.[11]

Briggs attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography.[12]

From 1953 to 1955, he was a National Service conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick, where he was made a draughtsman.[3] After this, he returned to study painting at Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 1957.[1][13]

Career

After briefly pursuing painting, he became a professional illustrator,[1] and soon began working in children's books. In 1958, he illustrated Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning-Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press. They would collaborate again for the Hamish Hamilton Book of Magical Beasts (Hamilton, 1966). In 1961, Briggs began teaching illustration part-time at Brighton School of Art, which he continued until 1986;[14][15] one of his students was Chris Riddell, who went on to win three Greenaway Medals.[16] Briggs was a commended runner-up for the 1964 Kate Greenaway Medal (Fee Fi Fo Fum, a collection of nursery rhymes)[17][a] and won the 1966 Medal for illustrating a Hamilton edition of Mother Goose.[1] According to a retrospective presentation by the librarians, The Mother Goose Treasury "is a collection of 408 traditional and well loved poems and nursery rhymes, illustrated with over 800 colour pictures by a young Raymond Briggs".[3]

The first three important works that Briggs both wrote and illustrated were in comics format rather than the separate text and illustrations typical of children's books; all three were published by Hamish Hamilton. Father Christmas (1973) and its sequel Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975); both feature a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the "blooming snow". For the former, he won his second Greenaway.[1] Much later they were jointly adapted as a film titled Father Christmas. The third early Hamilton "comics" was Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), featuring a day in the life of a working class bogeyman.[18]

The Snowman (Hamilton, 1978) was entirely wordless,[1] and illustrated with only pencil crayons.[19] The work was partly motivated by his previous book; Briggs wrote that "For two years I worked on Fungus, buried amongst muck, slime and words, so... I wanted to do something which was clean, pleasant, fresh and wordless and quick."[20] For that work Briggs was a Highly Commended runner-up for his third Greenaway Medal.[17][a] An American edition was produced by Random House in the same year, for which Briggs won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, picture book category.[21] In 1982, it was adapted by British TV channel Channel 4 as an animated cartoon, with a short narrated introduction by David Bowie.[22] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1982, and has since been shown every year on British television (except 1984).[23] On Christmas Eve 2012 the 30th anniversary of the original was marked by the airing of the sequel The Snowman and the Snowdog.[24]

Briggs continued to work in a similar format, but with more adult content, in Gentleman Jim (1980), a sombre look at the working class trials of Jim and Hilda Bloggs, closely based on his parents. When the Wind Blows (1982) confronted the trusting, optimistic Bloggs couple with the horror of nuclear war, and was praised in the House of Commons for its timeliness and originality. The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a Panorama documentary on nuclear contingency planning,[15] and the dense format of the page was inspired by a Swiss publisher's miniature version of Father Christmas.[25] This book was turned into a two-handed radio play with Peter Sallis in the male lead role, and subsequently an animated film, featuring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft.[26] The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984) was a denunciation of the Falklands War.[27]

Personal life

Briggs's wife Jean, who had schizophrenia, died from leukaemia in 1973, two years after his parents' death. They did not have any children.[28]

At the end of his life, Briggs lived in a small house in Westmeston, Sussex.[27][29] His long-term partner, Liz, died in October 2015 having had Parkinson's disease. Briggs continued to work on writing and illustrating books.[30]

Briggs stated that he used to be a staunch supporter of the Labour Party, although he lost faith in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.[31]

Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022, aged 88.[1][13]

Awards and honours

Briggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, or the "Emil", both for writing and for illustrating The Man, a short graphic novel featuring a boy and a homunculus. The award annually recognised one British children's book for integration of text and illustration.[32] His graphic novel Ethel & Ernest, which portrayed his parents' 41-year marriage, won Best Illustrated Book in the 1999 British Book Awards. In 2016, it was turned into a hand-drawn animated film.[33] In 2012, he was the first person to be inducted into the British Comic Awards Hall of Fame.[34]

In 2014, Briggs received the Phoenix Picture Book Award from the Children's Literature Association for The Bear (1994). The award committee stated:

With surprising page-turns, felicitous pauses, and pitch-perfect dialogue, Briggs renders the drama and humour of child–adult and child–bear relations, while questioning the nature of imagination and reality. As a picture book presented in graphic novel format, Briggs's work was ground-breaking when first published and remains cutting edge twenty years later in its creative unity of text and picture.[35]

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Briggs was one of two runners-up for the illustration award in 1984.[6][7]

He has also won several awards for particular works.[20][36]

The National Portrait Gallery, London, holds several photographic portraits of Briggs in its permanent collection.[41]

Briggs was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature.[42] A book about his life's work entitled Raymond Briggs: The Illustrators was written by Nicolette Jones and published in 2020.[43]

Selected works

Adaptations

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ a b c Today there are usually eight books on the Greenaway Medal shortlist. According to CCSU, some runners-up were Commended (from 1959) or Highly Commended (from 1974). There were 99 distinctions of both kinds in 44 years including three for 1964, three 1978. There were 31 high commendations in 29 years including Briggs alone for 1978.
    • Only Chris Riddell has won three Greenaways. Among the fourteen illustrators with two Medals, Briggs is one of seven with one book named to the top ten (1955–2005) and also one of seven with at least one Highly Commended runner-up (1974–2002), led by Helen Oxenbury with two Medals and four HC.

References

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  2. ^ Wroe, Nicholas (18 December 2004). "Bloomin' Christmas". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e (Greenaway Winner 1966). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
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  8. ^ . Archived from the original on 12 July 2016.
  9. ^ Debrett's People of Today, ed. Lucy Hume, Debrett's Ltd, 2017, p. 728
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  11. ^ "Raymond Briggs obituary: An illustrious career". BBC News. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  12. ^ Raymond Briggs Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2009. 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ a b Bailey, Jason M. (10 August 2022). "Raymond Briggs, Who Drew a Wordless 'Snowman,' Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
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  46. ^ "Ring-a-ring o' roses". WorldCat. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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  49. ^ "Shackleton's epic voyage". WorldCat. 1969. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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  55. ^ "When the wind blows". WorldCat. 1982. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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  62. ^ "Ethel & Ernest". WorldCat. 1998. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  63. ^ "Ug: boy genius of the stone age and his search for soft trousers". WorldCat. 2001. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  64. ^ "The adventures of Bert". WorldCat. 2001. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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Further reading

  • Barbara Baker, The Way We Write, (London: Continuum, 2006) ISBN 978-0-8264-9122-0
  • Nicolette Jones, Raymond Briggs: Blooming Books (Jonathan Cape, 2003). Extracts from the published works of Briggs with text commentary by Jones.
  • Richard Kilborn, The Multi-Media Melting Pot: Marketing "When the Wind Blows" (Comedia, 1986)
  • D. Martin, "Raymond Briggs", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp. 227–42
  • Elaine Moss, "Raymond Briggs: On British attitudes to the strip cartoon and children's book illustration", Signal (1979 January)
  • Anita Silvey (editor), The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Mariner Books, 2002) ISBN 978-0-618-19082-9

External links

  • Raymond Briggs at IMDb
  • Raymond Briggs at British Council: Literature
  • at the Internet Book List
  • "Panel Borders: The Work of Raymond Briggs" radio interview broadcast 8 January 2009 (audio)
  • Search Raymond Briggs at Kirkus Reviews
  • Articles on Raymond Briggs at Comics Bulletin
  • Raymond Briggs discography at Discogs

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For the British general see Raymond Briggs British Army officer For the American general see Raymond Westcott Briggs Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE 18 January 1934 9 August 2022 1 was 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 1978 story The Snowman a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas 2 Raymond BriggsCBEBriggs in 1983BornRaymond Redvers Briggs 1934 01 18 18 January 1934Wimbledon EnglandDied9 August 2022 2022 08 09 aged 88 Brighton EnglandArea s Artistwritercartoonistgraphic novelistillustratorNotable worksFather Christmas The Bear Fungus the Bogeyman The Snowman When the Wind Blows Ug Ethel amp ErnestAwardsKate Greenaway Medal 1966 1973 Horn Book Award 1979 British Book Award 1993 1999Spouse s Jean Briggs m 1963 died 1973 wbr Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association recognising the year s best children s book illustration by a British subject 3 4 For the 50th anniversary of the Medal 1955 2005 a panel named Father Christmas 1973 one of the top ten winning works which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation s favourite 5 For his contribution as a children s illustrator Briggs was a runner up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984 6 7 He was a patron of the Association of Illustrators 8 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Awards and honours 5 Selected works 6 Adaptations 7 See also 8 Explanatory notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life EditRaymond Redvers Briggs was born on 18 January 1934 in Wimbledon Surrey now London to Ernest Redvers Briggs 1900 1971 a milkman and Ethel Bowyer 1895 1971 a former lady s maid turned housewife who married in 1930 9 10 During the Second World War he was evacuated to Dorset before returning to London at the end of the war 11 Briggs attended Rutlish School at that time a grammar school pursued cartooning from an early age and despite his father s attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting and Central School of Art to study typography 12 From 1953 to 1955 he was a National Service conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick where he was made a draughtsman 3 After this he returned to study painting at Slade School of Fine Art graduating in 1957 1 13 Career EditAfter briefly pursuing painting he became a professional illustrator 1 and soon began working in children s books In 1958 he illustrated Peter and the Piskies Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press They would collaborate again for the Hamish Hamilton Book of Magical Beasts Hamilton 1966 In 1961 Briggs began teaching illustration part time at Brighton School of Art which he continued until 1986 14 15 one of his students was Chris Riddell who went on to win three Greenaway Medals 16 Briggs was a commended runner up for the 1964 Kate Greenaway Medal Fee Fi Fo Fum a collection of nursery rhymes 17 a and won the 1966 Medal for illustrating a Hamilton edition of Mother Goose 1 According to a retrospective presentation by the librarians The Mother Goose Treasury is a collection of 408 traditional and well loved poems and nursery rhymes illustrated with over 800 colour pictures by a young Raymond Briggs 3 The first three important works that Briggs both wrote and illustrated were in comics format rather than the separate text and illustrations typical of children s books all three were published by Hamish Hamilton Father Christmas 1973 and its sequel Father Christmas Goes on Holiday 1975 both feature a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the blooming snow For the former he won his second Greenaway 1 Much later they were jointly adapted as a film titled Father Christmas The third early Hamilton comics was Fungus the Bogeyman 1977 featuring a day in the life of a working class bogeyman 18 The Snowman Hamilton 1978 was entirely wordless 1 and illustrated with only pencil crayons 19 The work was partly motivated by his previous book Briggs wrote that For two years I worked on Fungus buried amongst muck slime and words so I wanted to do something which was clean pleasant fresh and wordless and quick 20 For that work Briggs was a Highly Commended runner up for his third Greenaway Medal 17 a An American edition was produced by Random House in the same year for which Briggs won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award picture book category 21 In 1982 it was adapted by British TV channel Channel 4 as an animated cartoon with a short narrated introduction by David Bowie 22 It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1982 and has since been shown every year on British television except 1984 23 On Christmas Eve 2012 the 30th anniversary of the original was marked by the airing of the sequel The Snowman and the Snowdog 24 Briggs continued to work in a similar format but with more adult content in Gentleman Jim 1980 a sombre look at the working class trials of Jim and Hilda Bloggs closely based on his parents When the Wind Blows 1982 confronted the trusting optimistic Bloggs couple with the horror of nuclear war and was praised in the House of Commons for its timeliness and originality The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a Panorama documentary on nuclear contingency planning 15 and the dense format of the page was inspired by a Swiss publisher s miniature version of Father Christmas 25 This book was turned into a two handed radio play with Peter Sallis in the male lead role and subsequently an animated film featuring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft 26 The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman 1984 was a denunciation of the Falklands War 27 Personal life EditBriggs s wife Jean who had schizophrenia died from leukaemia in 1973 two years after his parents death They did not have any children 28 At the end of his life Briggs lived in a small house in Westmeston Sussex 27 29 His long term partner Liz died in October 2015 having had Parkinson s disease Briggs continued to work on writing and illustrating books 30 Briggs stated that he used to be a staunch supporter of the Labour Party although he lost faith in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn 31 Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022 aged 88 1 13 Awards and honours EditBriggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award or the Emil both for writing and for illustrating The Man a short graphic novel featuring a boy and a homunculus The award annually recognised one British children s book for integration of text and illustration 32 His graphic novel Ethel amp Ernest which portrayed his parents 41 year marriage won Best Illustrated Book in the 1999 British Book Awards In 2016 it was turned into a hand drawn animated film 33 In 2012 he was the first person to be inducted into the British Comic Awards Hall of Fame 34 In 2014 Briggs received the Phoenix Picture Book Award from the Children s Literature Association for The Bear 1994 The award committee stated With surprising page turns felicitous pauses and pitch perfect dialogue Briggs renders the drama and humour of child adult and child bear relations while questioning the nature of imagination and reality As a picture book presented in graphic novel format Briggs s work was ground breaking when first published and remains cutting edge twenty years later in its creative unity of text and picture 35 The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children s books Briggs was one of two runners up for the illustration award in 1984 6 7 He has also won several awards for particular works 20 36 1966 Kate Greenaway Medal for The Mother Goose Treasury 3 1973 Kate Greenaway Medal for Father Christmas 4 1977 Francis Williams Award for Illustration Victoria and Albert Museum for Father Christmas 37 1979 Boston Globe Horn Book Award US for The Snowman 21 1979 Silver Pen Award Netherlands 38 1982 Children s Rights Workshop Other Award 39 1982 Francis Williams Award for Illustration for The Snowman 39 1992 Kurt Maschler Award for The Man 32 1992 Children s Author of the Year British Book Awards 36 1998 Illustrated Book of the Year British Book Awards for Ethel amp Ernest 39 2012 British Comic Awards Hall of Fame 33 2014 Phoenix Picture Book Award for The Bear 35 Fee Fi Fo Fum 1964 and The Snowman 1978 were Commended and Highly Commended runners up for the Greenaway Medal 17 a Ug was silver runner up for the 2001 Nestle Smarties Book Prize 40 The National Portrait Gallery London holds several photographic portraits of Briggs in its permanent collection 41 Briggs was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature 42 A book about his life s work entitled Raymond Briggs The Illustrators was written by Nicolette Jones and published in 2020 43 Selected works EditPeter and the Piskies Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales 1958 retold by Ruth Manning Sanders and illustrated by Briggs 44 The Fair to Middling 1959 by Arthur Calder Marshall Rupert Hart Davis London 45 The Strange House 1961 by Briggs Midnight Adventure 1961 by Briggs Ring a ring o Roses 1962 a collection of nursery rhymes 46 Sledges to the Rescue 1963 by Briggs Fee Fi Fo Fum 1964 a picture book of nursery rhymes 47 The Mother Goose Treasury Hamilton 1966 from Mother Goose winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 3 The Christmas Book 1968 by James Reeves 48 Shackleton s Epic Voyage 1969 by Michael Brown 49 Jim and the Beanstalk 1971 by Briggs 50 Father Christmas 1973 by Briggs winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 4 Father Christmas Goes on Holiday 1975 by Briggs 51 Fungus the Bogeyman 1977 by Briggs 52 The Snowman 1978 53 Gentleman Jim 1980 by Briggs 54 When the Wind Blows 1982 by Briggs 55 The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman 1984 by Briggs 56 All in a Day 1986 written by Mitsumasa Anno illustrated by Anno and others 57 Unlucky Wally 1987 58 Unlucky Wally 20 Years On 1989 59 The Man 1992 by Briggs 60 The Bear 1994 by Briggs 61 Ethel amp Ernest A True Story 1998 62 Ug Boy Genius of the Stone Age 2001 by Briggs 63 The Adventures of Bert by Allan Ahlberg 2001 64 A Bit More Bert by Allan Ahlberg 2002 65 The Puddleman 2004 66 Notes from the Sofa 2014 67 Adaptations EditThe Snowman 1982 1 68 When the Wind Blows 1983 BBC radio adaptation with Peter Sallis and Brenda Bruce 69 When the Wind Blows 1983 Little Theatre Bristol and Whitehall Theatre London When the Wind Blows 1986 film adaptation with Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills 70 Father Christmas 1991 1 68 The Bear 1998 68 Ivor the Invisible 2001 68 Fungus the Bogeyman 2004 1 68 Gentleman Jim 2008 BBC radio adaptation 71 Father Christmas Stage adaptation by Pins and Needles Productions at the Lyric Hammersmith 2012 Fungus the Bogeyman 2015 A 3 part television adaptation featuring Timothy Spall and Victoria Wood shown on Sky1 in December 2015 72 73 Ethel amp Ernest 2016 68 74 See also EditPortals Children s literature Comics Visual artsExplanatory notes Edit a b c Today there are usually eight books on the Greenaway Medal shortlist According to CCSU some runners up were Commended from 1959 or Highly Commended from 1974 There were 99 distinctions of both kinds in 44 years including three for 1964 three 1978 There were 31 high commendations in 29 years including Briggs alone for 1978 Only Chris Riddell has won three Greenaways Among the fourteen illustrators with two Medals Briggs is one of seven with one book named to the top ten 1955 2005 and also one of seven with at least one Highly Commended runner up 1974 2002 led by Helen Oxenbury with two Medals and four HC References Edit a b c d e f g h i j Lea Richard 10 August 2022 Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 The Guardian Retrieved 10 August 2022 Wroe Nicholas 18 December 2004 Bloomin Christmas The Guardian London Retrieved 22 May 2010 a b c d e Greenaway Winner 1966 Living Archive Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners CILIP Retrieved 14 July 2012 a b c Greenaway Winner 1973 Living Archive Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners CILIP Retrieved 14 July 2012 70 Years Celebration Anniversary Top Tens Archived 27 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine The CILIP Carnegie amp Kate Greenaway Children s Book Awards CILIP Retrieved 1 July 2012 a b Hans Christian Andersen Awards International Board on Books for Young People IBBY Retrieved 28 July 2013 a b Candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956 2002 The Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956 2002 IBBY Gyldendal 2002 Pages 110 18 Hosted by Austrian Literature Online literature at Retrieved 28 July 2013 Association of Illustrators Archived from the original on 12 July 2016 Debrett s People of Today ed Lucy Hume Debrett s Ltd 2017 p 728 Raymond Briggs Big kid old git and still in the rudest of health 9 August 2008 Raymond Briggs obituary An illustrious career BBC News 10 August 2022 Retrieved 10 August 2022 Raymond Briggs Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2009 Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine a b Bailey Jason M 10 August 2022 Raymond Briggs Who Drew a Wordless Snowman Dies at 88 The New York Times Retrieved 10 August 2022 Briggs Raymond MSN Encarta Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine a b read yourself RAW Profile Raymond Briggs Archived from the original on 19 July 2009 Chris Riddell a b c Kate Greenaway Medal 2007 Curriculum Lab Elihu Burritt Library Central Connecticut State University CCSU Retrieved 25 June 2012 Fungus the Bogeyman Season 1 Radio Times Retrieved 11 August 2022 Guardian book club Week two Raymond Briggs on Father Christmas s terrible job Raymond Briggs with John Mullan The Guardian 20 December 2008 a b Raymond Briggs Puffin Books Authors Puffin Books Confirmed 4 December 2012 Biography Interview Bibliography Published by Puffin Books a b Past Boston Globe Horn Book Award Winners The Horn Book Retrieved 11 August 2022 Let s all remember David Bowie s forgotten intro for The Snowman NME new musical express 2016 Anjorin Israel 10 August 2022 Raymond Briggs a Snowman author has passed away at age 88 Death SNBC13 com Retrieved 11 August 2022 Lawson Mark 14 December 2012 The Snowman and the Snowdog the pitfalls of remakes The Guardian Retrieved 10 August 2022 Why I d like to be a proper author Strip cartoons are a botheration for Raymond Briggs Raymond Briggs The Guardian 1 November 2002 Confirmed 4 December 2012 When the Wind Blows at IMDb Confirmed 4 December 2012 a b Raymond Briggs Snowman author dies aged 88 The Times Retrieved 10 August 2022 Jordan Justine 21 December 2019 Raymond Briggs Everything takes so bloody long when you re old The Guardian Walker Emily 24 December 2010 Snowman author says I hate Christmas From The Argus Theargus co uk Retrieved 23 July 2012 Big kid old git and still in the rudest of health Rachel Cooke The Observer 10 August 2008 Confirmed 4 December 2012 Aitkenhead Decca 24 December 2016 Raymond Briggs There could be another world war Terrifying isn t it TheGuardian com a b Kurt Maschler Awards Book Awards bizland com Retrieved 6 October 2013 a b Milligan Mercedes 10 August 2022 The Snowman Creator Raymond Briggs Dies Age 88 Animation Magazine Retrieved 11 August 2022 Archived copy Archived from the original on 11 March 2016 Retrieved 11 March 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link a b ChLA Newsletter Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine Vol 20 Issue 2 Autumn 2013 pp 6 7 Retrieved 2014 07 12 a b Raymond Briggs British Council Literature Retrieved 4 December 2012 Father Christmas raymond briggs raymond briggs V amp A Explore The Collections Victoria and Albert Museum Explore the Collections Retrieved 11 August 2022 Author illustrator Raymond Briggs dies age 88 NEWS School Library Association Retrieved 11 August 2022 a b c Raymond Briggs s Christmas Little Library Raymond Briggs Foyles Bookstore www foyles co uk Retrieved 11 August 2022 6000 children search for the next Harry Potter PR Newswire 6 December 2001 Raymond Briggs Person National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery London Retrieved 10 August 2022 No 61962 The London Gazette Supplement 17 June 2017 p B8 The grumpy genius of Raymond Briggs spectator com Retrieved 4 January 2021 Peter and the Piskies Cornish folk and fairy tales Illustrated by Raymond Briggs WorldCat London 1958 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The Fair to Middling etc London 1959 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Ring a ring o roses WorldCat Retrieved 11 August 2022 Fee fi fo fum WorldCat Hamish Hamilton 1964 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The Christmas book WorldCat 1968 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Shackleton s epic voyage WorldCat 1969 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Jim and the beanstalk WorldCat Hamilton 1970 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Father Christmas goes on holiday WorldCat H Hamilton 1975 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Fungus the Bogeyman WorldCat H Hamilton 1977 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The Snowman WorldCat Hamish Hamilton 1978 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Gentleman Jim WorldCat 1980 Retrieved 11 August 2022 When the wind blows WorldCat 1982 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The tin pot foreign general and the old iron woman WorldCat 1984 Retrieved 11 August 2022 All in a day WorldCat 1986 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Unlucky Wally WorldCat 1988 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Unlucky Wally twenty years on WorldCat 1989 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The man WorldCat 1992 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The Bear WorldCat 1994 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Ethel amp Ernest WorldCat 1998 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Ug boy genius of the stone age and his search for soft trousers WorldCat 2001 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The adventures of Bert WorldCat 2001 Retrieved 11 August 2022 A bit more Bert WorldCat 2002 Retrieved 11 August 2022 The puddleman WorldCat 2004 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Notes From the Sofa WorldCat 2014 Retrieved 11 August 2022 a b c d e f Raymond Briggs BFI Retrieved 11 August 2022 BBC Programme Index BBC Genome Retrieved 11 August 2022 When the Wind Blows 1986 BFI Retrieved 11 August 2022 BBC Programme Index genome ch bbc co uk Retrieved 11 August 2022 Fungus the Bogeyman Timothy Spall Leads All Star Cast Sky Retrieved 23 September 2015 Fungus The Bogeyman Series 1 Sky Retrieved 2 January 2016 Ramachandran Naman 10 August 2022 Raymond Briggs The Snowman Creator Dies at 88 Variety Retrieved 11 August 2022 Further reading EditBarbara Baker The Way We Write London Continuum 2006 ISBN 978 0 8264 9122 0 Nicolette Jones Raymond Briggs Blooming Books Jonathan Cape 2003 Extracts from the published works of Briggs with text commentary by Jones Richard Kilborn The Multi Media Melting Pot Marketing When the Wind Blows Comedia 1986 D Martin Raymond Briggs in Douglas Martin The Telling Line Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators Julia MacRae Books 1989 pp 227 42 Elaine Moss Raymond Briggs On British attitudes to the strip cartoon and children s book illustration Signal 1979 January Anita Silvey editor The Essential Guide to Children s Books and Their Creators Mariner Books 2002 ISBN 978 0 618 19082 9External links EditRaymond Briggs at IMDb Raymond Briggs at British Council Literature Raymond Briggs at the Internet Book List Panel Borders The Work of Raymond Briggs radio interview broadcast 8 January 2009 audio Search Raymond Briggs at Kirkus Reviews Articles on Raymond Briggs at Comics Bulletin Raymond Briggs discography at Discogs Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Raymond Briggs amp oldid 1134449299, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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