LONDON - British children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include "The Snowman" and "Fungus the Bogeyman," has died. He was 88. Briggs' family said he died Tuesday, and ...

The acclaimed author of The Snowman claimed to "hate Christmas", but loved to spend the period with his loved ones, a close friend has said. John Lord worked with Raymond Briggs and lived near him in ...

In the bleakest midwinter of 1982, under the gloom of Thatcher’s Britain, families gathered in front of their TV sets as a plaintive, tender piano melody began to play. Like a flurry of snow caught in ...