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Bert has all sorts of ridiculous, slapstick adventures including rescuing a barking cardboard box from the river and being chased by a giant sausage. Instructions help to make the reader feel part of the story when he/she is told to turn the page quietly as Bert's baby is sleeping.

A fascinating look at the work of one of our most significant and bestloved author/illustrators. Beginning with his first published illustration in 1958 and continuing through to the work he continues to produce today, Blooming Books is a stunning and diverse exploration of the work of this unique and brilliant artist. Commentaries by the journalist Nicolette Jones accompany extracts and, in some cases, complete picture books, reviewing the background to Briggs's work and its underlying themes. Following a foreword from Raymond Briggs and Nicolette Jones's introduction, the book is divided into four main sections: The Early Years (including, among many others, The Elephant and the Bad Baby); The Nursery Classics (e.g. Father Christmas, The Snowman, The Bear); A Gallery of Characters (e.g. Fungus, The Man, Ug) and The Social Issues (When the Wind Blows, The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, Ethel and Ernest). All of Briggs's work is here, from his captivating work for children through to the sharp and satirical works found in The Social Issues. Familiar favourites are also accompanied by some previously unseen material.

A humorous story about a cynical Father Christmas on Christmas Eve by the same author/illustrator as the award-winning "The Snowman". Father Christmas grumbles about the weather, his job, the anti-social hours he has to work, even going on holiday.

Deep under the ground, in the dark tunnels of bogeydom, live the bogeys, a vile collection of slimy, smelly creatures who revel in everything revolting. Fungus is a bogeyman - a particulary foul and fetid specimen. As he goes about his bogey business, the full horrors of bogeydom are revealed.

Ivor is the latest story from popular children's author and illustrator, Raymond Briggs. Ivor is the story of an invisible giant who comes to live with John and his family. The giant is mischevious and teases John, refusing to tell him its name or let him measure it to find out how big it is. Sometimes the giant is helpful, but often it becomes childish and naughty and in the end life becomes impossible for John and he asks it to leave. This is when the giant reveals its secret.... Ivor has all the charm of Raymond Briggs' previous books, but for the first time the animation precedes the book. The half-hour film will be shown over the Christmas period and will be in a jewel in Channel 4's Christmas crown. It has all the elements that children expect of Briggs, strong characters, beautiful illustration, and above all, an element of subversity.

Adapted by Raymond Briggs from his book of the same name, this story is read by Michael Palin with 12-year-old William Puttock as the boy in whose house the Man decides to take up residence. The Man is six inches high and has strong opinions on personal independence and a lot of other things.

The story of a small boy's friendship with a snowman and their flight together over the sparkling winter landscape. Told without words through Raymond Briggs' gentle, atmospheric pictures, the book is about the innocence and wonder of childhood.

Introducing Ug, the Stone Age boy, an appealing, misunderstood genius who refuses to accept the limitations of his world.

Raymond Briggs's comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple, in his usual humorous, yet macabre way.

One day, an elephant offers a bad baby a ride through the town, and so begins an adventure and a chase. But when the elephant realizes that the bad baby has forgotten his manners, the chase ends with a bump and tea for everyone.