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Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) [1] was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1982, The New Read-Aloud Handbook, 1989, The Read-Aloud Handbook, Sixth Edition, 2006. Reading Aloud: Motivating Children to Make Books Into Friends, Not Enemies (film), 1983. Turning On the Turned Off Reader (audio cassette), 1983. (Editor) Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloud, 1992. (Editor) Read all About It!:
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975) Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1975, 1976) The First Easter Rabbit (1976) Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) The Little Drummer Boy, Book II (1976) The Muppet Show (1976-1981) The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town (1977) The Last Dinosaur (1977) The Hobbit (1977) Nestor the Long–Eared ...
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The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White. In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
"Do you want to build a snowman?" a character asks in a film my children watch. This is not an idle query. It is a question of monumental importance, one with significant logistical, aesthetic ...
The record for the world's largest snowman or snowwoman was set in 2008 in Bethel, Maine. The snowwoman stood 122 feet 1 inch (37.21 m) in height, and was named Olympia in honor of Olympia Snowe, a U.S. Senator representing the state of Maine. [14] [15] The previous record was a snowman built in Bethel, Maine, in February 1999.
Margaret was a member of the wealthy Evans family of New York who, for a time, had an effective monopoly on the building material industry in the City. Margaret's brother, Heathcliff, expanded his father's business operations to include a book binding business which, at its peak, encompassed a complex of buildings on East 12th Street in Manhattan.