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...(When a stranger turns erotically frank in a café, his stunned face has never looked more like it was drawn by Raymond Briggs.) But comedy is not really the aim here....
...In a year in which we have lost giants of children’s literature including Raymond Briggs and my beloved Shirley Hughes, Bea’s round-up of the next generation of writers and illustrators suggests some names...
...That meant the theme was still looking for a home in 1981, when he was approached about a short animated film of a boy flying with a snowman, based on a picture book by illustrator Raymond Briggs....
...A sense of Orwellian gloom was in the ascendant: even cuddly old Raymond Briggs of The Snowman was making an animated feature, When the Wind Blows, about an elderly couple following a “protect and survive...
...Raymond Briggs: The Illustrators Series, by Nicolette Jones, Thames & Hudson, RRP£18.99, 112 pages “There are no good books which are only for children,” WH Auden said....
...Her parents, who had met during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, gave her Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows, a novel, ostensibly for children, about a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union on Britain....
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...Sales of the “Tonies” figurines, which include the popular Julia Donaldson characters The Gruffalo, Stick Man and Zog, and Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman, have reached 9m....
...In its wistful, feathery melancholia, the book recalls Raymond Briggs at his darkest, but manages to be uplifting all the same. The Gritterman, by Orlando Weeks, Particular Books RRP£17.99, 74 pages...
...The Gritterman , by Orlando Weeks, Particular Books, RRP£17.99 Weeks, former frontman of indie band The Maccabees, walks in the footsteps of Raymond Briggs with this plaintive, beautifully illustrated tale...
...A son — Raymond — is born into this cosy world of rosy cheeks and cheery dispositions. War comes and goes. So far, so sweet....
...Then I was accepted at Brighton Polytechnic art school, where I was taught by the great Raymond Briggs. Who was or still is your mentor? There are so many! Certainly Briggs....
...There’ll always be an England while there is Raymond Briggs. Ethel & Ernest is an animated adaptation of the Snowman author’s graphic novel about his London-dwelling parents....
...It is also behind Ethel & Ernest, the animated feature film based on a Raymond Briggs book that ran on the BBC last Christmas....
...Next up is a story about a wish-fulfilling snow woman: “The Snow-Mama” is sweetly daft with more than a nod to Raymond Briggs....
...“When the Wild Wind Blows” was an otiose twist on Raymond Briggs. What struck me was how lightweight it all sounded. Despite the sonic mass, I seldom felt its heft....
...Fungus the Bogeyman (1977) by Raymond Briggs Briggs’ hilariously misanthropic Fungus was a cult book for me as a teenager. Is it even a kids’ book at all?...
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