Raymond Emanuel Briggs

When the Wind Blows

Raymond Briggs Presents the Father Christmas It's a Blooming Terrible Joke Book

Father Christmas

Father Christmas Goes on Holiday

Fungus the Bogeyman

Ethel & Ernest

Jim and the Beanstalk

Elephant and the Bad Baby

Notes from the Sofa

First book in ten years by the much-loved author of The Snowman, Father Christmas, and Ethel & Ernest.      From the beloved and best-selling author of The Snowman comes his first book in ten years: a charming and beautifully illustrated work for adults. In Notes from the Sofa, Raymond Briggs traces...

The Snowman

Illus. in full color. A wordless story. The pictures have "the hazy softness of air in snow. A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The experience is one that neither he nor young 'readers' will ever regret or forget."--(starred) B...

The Puddleman

Tom refers to his grandfather as "Collar" because he drags him around on a lead. One day Tom decides that he will take Collar on a walk to see the puddles he named after the members of the family, but the puddles are not there. Collar insists that this is because it hasn’t rained, but Tom believes t...

The Snowman Storybook (Pictureback(R))

Now in Pictureback® format comes Raymond Briggs' award-winning, enchanting story of a young boy and a snowman who share a magical night of friendship, fun, and flying. "The experience is one that neither he nor young readers will ever regret or forget." (Booklist, starred review). Our new Picturebac...

Fungus the Bogeyman: The 35th Anniversary Edition

Life in Bogeydom is full of snot, smells, slime, scum and other unspeakable things, and Bogeymen live under the ground revelling in allthe nastiness imaginable. Briggs has created a whole new world in this sophisticated cartoon-strip picture book for older children which will entice the most relucta...

Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (Picture Puffin Books)

In this hilarious sequel from Raymond Briggs, author of The Snowman and inspiration for The Snowman and Snowdog, a still rather grumpy Father Christmas decides to go on holiday. No-one needs a holiday more than Father Christmas, but where can such a well-known and easily recognized person go? Father...

Ethel and Ernest: A True Story

Poignant, funny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his parents' lives from their chance first encounter in the 1920s until their deaths in the 1970s. Ethel and Ernest were solid members of the English working class, part of the generation that lived through...

Gentleman Jim

A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonistsGentleman Jim is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in life, devotes his time to envisioning a world beyond it. His walls are lined with books like Out in the Silver West, The...