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Bedtime Rhymes by Raymond Briggs
Category: Board Books
Taken from Raymond Briggs' classic Puffin Mother Goose Treasury, this is a perfect first introduction to everyone's favourite bedtime rhymes. With beautiful illustrations throughout by the much-loved creator of The Snowman.
Blooming Books by Raymond Briggs
Category: Fiction
Beginning with his first published illustration in 1958 and continuing through to the work he continues to produce today, Blooming Books is a stunning and diverse exploration of the work of this unique and brilliant artist. Commentaries by the journalist Nicolette Jones accompany extracts and, in some c ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes; Raymond Briggs (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
This collection brings together the more than 250 children's poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written "within hearing" of children. Throu ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (Hardback) by Ted Hughes (illus Raymond Briggs)
Category: unmapped
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs", which he remark ...Show more
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Category: Fiction
With a marvellous, life-enhancing book for all ages, now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke Treadaway Utterly original, deeply moving and very funny, Ethel & Ernest tells the story of Raymond Briggs' parents' marriage, lady's maid Ethel and milkman Ernest, from the ...Show more
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Category: Fiction
This is the story of the author's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths, with nothing invented and nothing embroidered, told in Briggs' unique strip-cartoon format.
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
Category: Picture Books
"BLOOMING CHRISTMAS, HERE AGAIN!" Reissued in a mini hardback gift edition, with a letter from Raymond Briggs, this is the perfect stocking filler. On Christmas Eve morning, a very grumpy Father Christmas is dreaming about summer, and certainly doesn't want to get up in the cold to deliver presents! Fol ...Show more
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
Category: Picture Books
Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there it was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve - the start of his longest night's work of the year! This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.
Father Christmas Goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffin Ser.
No one needs a holiday more than Father Christmas, but where can such a well-known and easily recognized person go to? Father Christmas is resourceful, and so he sets off in search of his ideal holiday spot.