LONDON – Raymond Briggs, illustrator of the basic youngsters’s Christmas e-book ‘The Snowman’, has died aged 88, the Press Affiliation mentioned on Wednesday, citing his writer.
Born in London in 1934, Briggs studied artwork earlier than happening to publish a spread of youngsters’s books, however he's greatest identified for The Snowman, a crayon-illustrated wordless image e-book.
First revealed in 1978, it tells the story of a boy whose snowman involves life to play through the evening after which takes him on a flight via snowy British landscapes.
The e-book ends on a melancholy be aware when the boy wakes to search out the snowman has melted.
An animated tv adaption first aired on Boxing Day 1982 and has since turn into a staple of British broadcasters’ Christmas scheduling, bringing the story to new generations of youngsters. It was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 and gained a British academy tv award in the identical yr.
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