![]() ![]() Children who are unable to read words), allowing them to step into the role of storyteller. “But makes it sound posher which sells more, I suppose.”)īelieve it or not, wordless picture books are great for your child. Lots and lots of them, working together sequentially in a style once regarded as ‘comic’ format, now elevated to the ranks of ‘graphic novel.’ (In a BBC Newsnight interview, he admits to disliking the term. It was a magical day… and it was on that day I made The Snowman.”īriggs captures that magical day in a story told entirely through pictures. “Snow had fallen steadily all night long,” he recalls, “and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. The story was inspired by the heaviest snow Briggs had ever seen. Because the picture book (unlike the animated short film) doesn’t reference Christmas at all. Few picture books evoke Christmas more than the timeless classic, The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (Hamish Hamilton, 1978). ![]()
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