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.
The book was adapted into a 26-minute animated film in 1982 which debuted on British television that 26 December
"Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book The Snowman.
The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman, which has become a seasonal perennial on British television.
