RAYMOND BRIGGS (THE ILLUSTRATORS) (HB)

Stylistically versatile, Raymond Briggs has illustrated some sixty books, twenty of them with his own text. He first became a household name in the late 1970s and early 1980s with publications that were entertaining and subversive and appealed to both children and adults; including Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman, The Snowman, and When the Wind Blows. Encompassing sixty years of Raymond Briggs’s work, from political picture books to children’s classics, this study explores his themes of class, family and loss, and how he demonstrates both emotional power and great technical skill.