Shirley Hughes Lucy & Tom’s a.b.c.Helping Mr. Snowman (1940’s) Medici Society Angus Clifford ‘Racey’ Helps Anglo/Scottish Children’s Book/Post Card Illustrator/Author/ PainterAlice and Martin Provensen A Book of Seasons 1976Frog and Toad by Arnold LobelThe Finches’ Fabulous Furnace by Roger W. Drury, illustrations by Erik BlegvadVictorian Christmas cardCarl Robert Arthur Thiele Vintage post card from early 1900sGood Housekeeping magazine, January 1939 cover art (detail)1951 Frosty The Snowman Children’s Golden BookVladimir F. Alekseev (1944-2010)‘Mimmi’ The best knitwear for children advertising poster by Boccasile, 1945Norman Rockwell The Saturday Evening Post, December 20, 1919Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)Woman’s World Magazine February 1931 Snowman (Snowhorse) Cover Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo (1900-1992), Austrian children’s book illustrator. Weihnachten (Christmas), 1937 Kodomo no kuni (“Children’s Land”), 1922–30Enda Eicke illustration of children building a snowman in the city, for the cover of The New Yorker magazine, February 2, 1946Vyacheslav LegkobitBeatrix PotterLucia Patton, active 1930’s, 1940’sChicken Soup with Rice Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) Jean-Jacques Sempé, How Do You Get Cold in 12 Images snowmanAnton Pieck (1895-1987), Dutch painter and illustrator 1904 comic strip from Blanco y negro magazine, Madrid John Philip Falter (American, 1910-1982) Frosty in the Freezer , February 21, 1959 For The Saturday Evening PostVictorian Christmas cardVictorian Christmas cardAnother Victorian Christmas card. Is this a snowman giving birth to a woman? A Pygmalion fantasy wish fulfilment, perhaps?Victorian Christmas card children playing with snow and accidentally freaking themselves out. This Victorian Christmas Card is disturbing. The fact that the situation is instantly recognisable as a drunk policeman chasing a (very young) girl out on her own shouldn’t make sense.Into The Spiderverse snowman
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
