‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas
Aug 10, 2022
3 minutes
Some people are so famous for so long that they become enmeshed in all our lives. , was one of those people. Briggs illustrated his first book, Ruth Manning-Sanders’s Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, 64 years ago, and quickly set about creating a string of classic books, many shot through with his trademark melancholy. revelled in a quiet British mundanity; When the Wind Blows was terrifying enough to scar managed to convey the small hopes and thwarted ambitions of mid-20th century life in a way that would put to shame many important authors covering the same period.
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