A sculptural trail with a festive twist comes to London, in the shape of The Snowman. Over the Christmas period, 12 giant sculptures of Raymond Briggs's The Snowman will be placed throughout the ...

Christmas wouldn’t be the same without another showing for the heart-melting fantasy about a boy whose snowman creation magically comes to life. But The Snowman was actually about death and should ...

Considered one of the best Christmas films, The Snowman is hugely popular among the British public and has become a hallmark of the TV schedule for this time of year ever since. Only 26 minutes long, ...

It’s 6.15pm on Boxing Day, 1982. A young announcer on the pristinely new Channel 4 sits before a drooping Christmas tree laden with lurid tinsel and introduces a “wonderful fantasy animation” for the ...

Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for the beloved 1978 children’s picture book 'The Snowman', has died at the age of 88. Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for the 1978 ...

The TV version of The Snowman has been screened on Channel 4 every year since 1982 and a £2m, 24-minute sequel, The Snowman And The Snowdog, is being broadcast this Christmas. Briggs, 78, told the ...

Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman stands as one of the most beloved children’s Christmas books of all time, and the film adaptation has endured just as well. Telling the story of a boy whose snowman comes ...