The Snowman + Father Christmas - Dianne Jackson, Dave Unwin, Jimmy T. Murakami

In Father Christmas, Santa decides to go on vacation and converts his sleigh into a caravan for a trip to France, Scotland and Las Vegas. When he comes home to settle into the holiday season, he realizes he left something behind.

In The Snowman, a little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.

Raymond Briggs is one of Britain’s most respected and beloved authors/illustrators. He showed interest in cartooning from an early age and later became a professional illustrator, working in advertising and going on to win acclaim as a children's book creator as well as teaching illustration at Brighton College of Art. Briggs illustrated a book of nursery rhymes, The Mother Goose Treasury, for which he won the Kate Greenaway medal. His others books include Father Christmas (1973), Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), The Snowman (1978) When the Wind Blows (1982) and The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984). These books have been translated into many languages and adapted into films, plays and animations for television.