"The Snowman The Snowman is a wordless children's picture book by English author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom, and published by Random House in the United States in November of the same year. In the United Kingdom, it was the runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British writer. In the United States, it was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1979. The book was adapted into a half-hour animated television special in 1982, which debuted on"
"The Snowman (fairy tale) ""The Snowman"" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a snowman who falls in love with a stove. It was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen as ""Sneemanden"" on 2 March 1861. Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager describes the tale as a lyrical and poignant complement to Andersen's ""The Fir-Tree"" of December 1844. Wullschlager believes ""The Snowman"" was the product in part of Andersen’s ""pining and discontent over"" Harald Scharff, a handsome young dancer at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. According to Wullschlager, the two men entered a relationship in the early 1860s that"
"The Snow Queen ""The Snow Queen"" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845."" () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. ""The Snow Queen"" is a tale told in seven 'stories' ():"
"""The Snowman"", used to live. Once in the open countryside, it is now in a housing estate. One sunny Summer's day, a young boy named Billy and his mother arrive at the house, which they have just moved into. Billy helps his elderly dog from the removal van and they enter the property. As autumn arrives, it becomes apparent that Billy's dog has died and the family bury him in the back garden. With Christmas approaching, Billy writes to Father Christmas in the form of a hand-drawn picture; the one and only thing he asks for is another dog to"
"for Salzburg. Following the departure of Scharff and Eckardt for Salzburg, Andersen traveled to Switzerland but grew despondent and then depressed. In November, he returned to Copenhagen and spent Christmas at Basnæs, the estate of an aristocratic patron and friend on the coast of Zealand. His spirits lifted with the holiday festivities and ""The Snowman” was composed on New Year’s Eve 1860. It was published with several other new tales by Andersen two months later on 2 March 1861 in ""New Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Series. First Collection. 1861."" by the Copenhagen publisher C. A. Reitzel. Andersen's relationship with"
"Raymond Briggs Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story ""The Snowman"", a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas. Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named ""Father Christmas"" (1973) one of the"
"The Snowstorm ""The Snowstorm"" (also translated as ""The Snow Storm"") () is a short story by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published in 1856, in the literary and political magazine ""Sovremennik"". The idea for ""The Snowstorm"" dates back to January, 1854, when Tolstoy was lost all night in a snowstorm about 100 versts (~107 km or 66 miles) from Cherkassk and thought to write a story about the event. It was two years later before he carried out his plan and wrote the story. The unnamed narrator of the story and his manservant Alyeshka start on an"
"The Ice-Maiden ""The Ice-Maiden"" (""Iisjomfruen"", or ""Isjomfruen"" in contemporary Danish) is an 1861 fairy tale (short story) by the Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen. The first English translation was published by King and Baird in 1863. In ""The Ice-Maiden"", written towards the end of his career, Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of Rudy, a boy who lost both his parents and goes to live with his uncle. The reader is first introduced to Rudy as he sells toy houses made by his grandfather. Rudy grows up to become a skilled mountain climber and huntsman. He has fallen in love"
"Snow Queen on Lind after she rejected him as a suitor. The story has been adapted into numerous stage plays and musicals, notably including: ""The Snow Queen"" by Missoula children's theatre in several locations including Estevan and Humboldt. Literature Media The Snow Queen ""The Snow Queen"" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845."" () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of"
"Great Heritage"", most of which are still frequently sung today. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The"
"A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ""A Christmas Carol"" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ""A Christmas Carol"" during a period when the British were"
"The Snowman (Nesbø novel) The Snowman (, 2007) is a novel by Norwegian crime-writer Jo Nesbø. It is the seventh entry in his Harry Hole series. In 1980, a married woman has illicit sex with a lover while her adolescent son waits in a car outside; their lovemaking is disturbed when they think somebody is looking at them from outside the window, which turns out to have been only a tall snowman. Twenty-four years later, Norwegian detective Harry Hole investigates a string of murders of women around Oslo. His FBI training leads him to search for links between the cases,"
"the Snowman — the narrator, and an original orchestral score composed by Marks himself, ""Rudolph"" became one of the most popular, and longest-running, Christmas specials in television history: it remained with NBC until around 1972, and currently runs several times during the Christmas season on CBS. The special contained seven original songs. In 1965, a new song was filmed in ""Animagic"" to replace ""We're a Couple of Misfits"" titled ""Fame and Fortune."" The success of ""Rudolph"" led to numerous other Christmas specials. The first was ""The Cricket on the Hearth"", with a live-action prologue by Danny Thomas and the animation"
"Silent Snow, Secret Snow ""Silent Snow, Secret Snow"" (1934) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction. It appeared in ""The Collected Stories of Conrad Aiken"" in 1934, and since then has been widely anthologized. The story tells of a boy named Paul Hasleman, who finds it increasingly difficult to pay attention to his classwork, and grows more distant from his family. He is, instead, becoming more and more entranced by daydreaming about snow. This began when he was lying in bed one morning, awaiting the approach of the postman."
"The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) () is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS) conducted by Eduard Nápravník. By 1898 it was revised in the edition known today. It remained the composer's own favorite work. The story deals with the"
"The Snow Maiden (play) The Snow Maiden (, Snegurochka) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1873 and first published in the September 1873 issue of ""Vestnik Evropy"". The idea of the play based on a fairytale about Snegurochka came to Ostrovsky in his Shchelykovo estate, the place he admired and almost worshipped, imagining it as a piece of wonderland here on Earth, saturated with the spirit of Old Rus with its heroic warriors and gentle, benevolent tsars. The play tells the story of an idyllic utopian kingdom ruled by the Berendei, a poet and an artist who believes"
"remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The Improvisatore"" (1835), a series of poems, and his autobiography ""The Fairy Tale of My Life"""
"with Montgomery Ward. The song tells the story of a reindeer whose shiny red nose guides Santa's sleigh through the fog on Christmas Eve. Gene Autry's 1949 recording remained at #1 for a week and brought the song widespread fame. Only ""White Christmas"" has sold more copies. Autry had another hit in 1950 with ""Frosty the Snowman"", written by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson as a direct attempt to create a success in the vein of ""Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"". The song tells the story of a magical snowman who has playful adventures with children. In 1963, ""Frosty"" hit its"
"Andersen, according to his diary, did not ""feel at all well"" when the two young men departed. A liaison with a celebrated and distinguished man such as Andersen must have held some attraction for the young Scharff, and a correspondence between the two began. Andersen sent Scharff his photograph. Following the departure of Scharff and Eckardt for Salzburg, Andersen traveled to Switzerland but grew despondent and returned to Copenhagen. He spent the Christmas holidays at the estate of an aristocratic friend. His spirits lifted with the festivities and ""The Snowman” was composed on New Year’s Eve 1860–61. Andersen determined to"
"Snow, Glass, Apples ""Snow, Glass, Apples"" is a 1994 short story written by Neil Gaiman. It was originally released as a benefit book for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and was reprinted in the anthology ""Love in Vein II"", edited by Poppy Z. Brite. The story retells the famous fairy tale of Snow White from the point of view of Snow White's stepmother, who is traditionally the villain of the piece but is here depicted as struggling desperately—and ultimately, unsuccessfully, as the ""happy ending"" takes place on schedule—to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter. The story"
"in Channel 4's poll of ""100 Greatest Christmas Moments"" in 2004. """"I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snow I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long 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. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made The Snowman."""" One winter's day, a boy named James builds a snowman who comes to life at the stroke of midnight. He and the boy play with appliances, toys"
"Andersen's ""The Snowman"" of 1861. The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by Kevin Sullivan, directed by Martin Hunter and filmed at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jeff Kahnert provided the voice of the Fir-Tree. This was the first film produced by Kevin Sullivan who went on to write, direct and produce the Anne of Green Gables movies. It was adapted as the sixteenth episode of The Fairytaler. In 2011, the story was again adapted as a short, Danish-language film directed by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld and presented in a modern"
"as the voice of a more sardonic Frosty defending the value of snow against Mr. Twitchell (Brian Doyle-Murray), the maker of a snow-removal spray. Frosty the Snowman ""Frosty the Snowman"" (or ""Frosty the Snow Man"") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter ""Jack"" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the new song to Autry, who recorded"
"Frosty the Snowman ""Frosty the Snowman"" (or ""Frosty the Snow Man"") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter ""Jack"" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the new song to Autry, who recorded ""Frosty"" in search of another seasonal hit. Like ""Rudolph"", ""Frosty"" was subsequently adapted to other media including a popular television special by Rankin/Bass Productions,"
"is his joking invention. In 1821, the book ""A New-year's present, to the little ones from five to twelve"" was published in New York. It contained ""Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"", an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing presents to children. Some modern ideas of Santa Claus seemingly became canon after the anonymous publication of the poem ""A Visit From St. Nicholas"" (better known today as ""The Night Before Christmas"") in the Troy, New York, ""Sentinel"" on 23 December 1823; Clement Clarke Moore later claimed authorship, though some scholars argue that Henry Livingston, Jr. (who died nine"
"episode from the first season of """", titled ""The Signalman"", was inspired by Dickens's story. In the 2005 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Unquiet Dead"", in which the Doctor meets Charles Dickens, he mentions a particular fondness for ""that one with the ghosts"", clarifying that he means ""The Signal-Man"" (rather than ""A Christmas Carol"" as Dickens had assumed). <div class=""plainlinks""> The Signal-Man ""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the ""Mugby Junction"" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of ""All the Year Round"". The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an"
"The Christmas Mystery The Christmas Mystery (Norwegian: ""Julemysteriet"") is a 1992 Norwegian novel for children by Jostein Gaarder. The story has one chapter for each day of Advent. Using the device of a ""Story within a story"", a young boy, Joachim, reads a story hidden behind each window in an advent calendar that he bought on November 30; every day, he finds small piece of paper from the doors of the calendar that tells the story of Elisabet Hansen, who chases a toy lamb that has come to life from an Oslo department store. The story within the advent calendar"
"Dianne Jackson Dianne Jackson (July 28, 1941 – December 31, 1992) was an English animation director, best known for ""The Snowman"", made in 1982 and subsequently repeated every Christmas on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. She had a long career as an animator, and her earliest credit was for The Beatles' ""Yellow Submarine"" in 1968. She is particularly noted for recreating the style of the original artists in her animations, for example of Raymond Briggs's picture book, ""The Snowman"". She also directed ""Granpa"" by John Burningham in 1989 and was due to direct Raymond Briggs' ""Father Christmas"" in 1991,"
"The Winter's Tale The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's ""problem plays"" because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending. The play has been intermittently popular, revived in productions in various forms and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespearean performance history, beginning"
"The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a novella by the American author Paul Gallico. It was first published in 1940 as a short story in ""The Saturday Evening Post"", then he expanded it to create a short novella which was first published on April 7, 1941. ""The Snow Goose"" is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned"
"reply ""Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"", has become a part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada. The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" by American author Washington Irving. The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on"
"The Snow Man ""The Snow Man"" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, ""Harmonium"", first published in the October 1921 issue of the journal ""Poetry"". Sometimes classified as one of Stevens' ""poems of epistemology"", it can be read as an expression of the naturalistic skepticism that he absorbed from his friend and mentor George Santayana. It is doubtful that anything can be known about a substantial self (Santayana was an epiphenomenalist) or indeed about substances in the world apart from the perspectives that human imagination brings to ""the nothing that is"" when it perceives ""junipers shagged with"
"Frosty the Snowman (film) Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 animated Christmas television special based on the song ""Frosty the Snowman"". The program, which first aired on December 7, 1969 on CBS (where it continues to air annually), was produced for television by Rankin/Bass Productions and featured the voices of comedians Jimmy Durante as the film's narrator (Durante's final performance in a film) and Jackie Vernon as the title character. The special's story follows a group of school children who build a snowman called Frosty and place a magic hat on his head, which makes him come to life. But"