Beloved creator of Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas brought a distinctive strain of melancholy to the genre• The Snowman, the Bogeyman and Father Christmas: the world of Raymond Briggs – in pictures• Raymond Briggs obituary• Share your tributes and memories of Snowman author Raymond... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-10 07:20:39 UTC ]
A new edition of “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas” showcases another side of the Lord of the Rings author. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-22 08:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford are unveiling a series of previously unseen letters that J R R Tolkien wrote to his children “from Father Christmas” every winter for 23 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Olivier Award-winning actor Noma Dumezweni and "Designated Survivor" actress Natascha McElhone have been commissioned by Canongate to narrate two new audio titles for release this autumn: Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig, and The Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate flies in Matt Haig to meet his international publishers at Frankfurter Buchmesse on the eve of the release of 'Father Christmas and Me.' The post Christmas In October: UK Rights Rustler Matt Haig Sleighs to Frankfurt Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has revealed the title for Matt Haig and Chris Mould's third children's Christmas book: Father Christmas and Me. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and illustrator Nicholas Allan, whose books include as Father Christmas Needs a Wee and The Queen's Knickers (Red Fox), is donating his entire archive to Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired a children’s book by Matt Haig about the early life of Father Christmas. Set in 18th-century Finland, A Boy Called Christmas is about elves, reindeer, a kidnapping, and an 11-year-old boy called Nikolas who isn't afraid to believe in magic. It will be illustrated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]