Also the Snowman and the Snowdog DVD is the sequel to the Snowman that is very much as good as the first one. Directed by Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami. With David Bowie, Raymond Briggs. On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to. I want to thank everyone for watching this video and for sharing the wonderful memories you have when watching it. Love! ***** The song 'Walking In The Air Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. I know that Raymond Brigg's The Snowman is considered a modern classic (and probably one of the first really universally popular wordless picture books). Raymond Briggs’ classic The Snowman™ is a true piece of Christmas magic. Learn about the books, films, get activities and play games. The complete 1982 video with the original introduction, NOT the animated or David Bowie intros for TV broadcast. Based on the book The Snowman by Raymond. Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. The Snowman is a children's picture book without words by English author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom.