The Snowman Shaped Board Book

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This article is about the book and its television adaptation. For other uses, see Snowman.
Script error: The module returned a value. It is supposed to return an export table. The Snowman is a children's picture book without words by English author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the U.K., and published by Random House in the U.S. that November. In Britain it was highly commended runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. In the U.S. it was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1979.
The book was adapted into a 26-minute animated television special in 1982 which debuted in Britain that 26 December. It was nominated for an Academy Award. Its showings have become an annual event.