St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty performed the famous theme song for The Snowman, adapted from which author's book?
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Walking in the Air "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 favorite on British and Finnish television. The story relates the fleeting adventures of a young boy and a snowman who has come to life. In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman fly to the North Pole. "Walking in the Air" is the theme for the journey. They attend a party of snowmen, at which the boy seems to be the only human until they meet Father Christmas with his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern. In the film, the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty, and reissued in 1985 (on Stiff Records) and 1987.
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The 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, and published by Random House in the United States in November of the same year. In the UK, it was the runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British writer.
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Chanticleer and the Fox (book) In the children's book Chanticleer and the Fox, Barbara Cooney adapted and illustrated the story of Chanticleer and the Fox as told in The Nun's Priest's Tale in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", translated by Robert Mayer Lumiansky. Published by Crowell in 1958, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1959. It was also one of the Horn Book "best books of the year."
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The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley.
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Walter E. Rollins Walter E. "Jack" Rollins (September 15, 1906 – January 1, 1973) was an American musician of Keyser, West Virginia. Along with Steve Nelson, he co-wrote "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," used in the Easter special of the same name, in 1949, and "Frosty the Snowman" in 1950. Jack Rollins also wrote "Smokey the Bear" for the public-service mascot Smokey Bear, and co-wrote many country songs for artists such as Gene Autry, Hank Snow, George Jones and Eddy Arnold.
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Fever Pitch Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: "Fever Pitch" (1997, UK) and "Fever Pitch" (2005, U.S.). The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not.
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Aylmer Hall Aylmer Hall is the pen name of Norah Eleanor Lyle Cummins (born 24 April 1914). She is the author of adventure stories for children written in the 1950s and 1960s. Her book "The Tyrant King - A London Adventure" was published by London Transport in 1967 with illustrations by Peter Roberson. The book inspired the film of the same name, directed by Mike Hodges.
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I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers is a children's novel written by British author Philip Pullman. It was published in 1999.
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Don Juan Triumphant Don Juan Triumphant is the name of a fictional opera written by the title character in the novel "The Phantom of the Opera". In the 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the concept is expanded as an opera within a musical and the performance of it plays a major role in the storyline. The fictional piece draws major inspiration from the Mozart's famous work "Don Giovanni" yet the Phantom's opera is depicted as far more bleak and dark.
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Honk, the Moose Honk, the Moose is a children's book by Phil Stong. It tells the story of a moose who takes over a small town which causes an uproar when three young boys try to save the moose and make it through the cold Minnesota winter. The book, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, was first published in 1935, and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1936. In 1970, it won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was listed in Cattermole's "100 Best Children's Books of the 20th Century". Based on a true story from Biwabik, Minnesota, it effectively describes the lives of Finnish immigrants there.
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Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes is a collection of nursery rhymes written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1917. Potter had a lifelong fascination with rhymes, and proposed a book of short verses called "Appley Dapply" to Warne following the release of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in 1902. Warne preferred Potter's original fantasies to her derivative work, and gave "Appley Dapply" little encouragement. The book was set aside in favour of other projects.
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The Return of Mr. Bean "The Return of Mr. Bean" is the second episode of the television series "Mr. Bean", and features three sketches in which Mr. Bean goes shopping in his unique way at a department store, visits a restaurant for a meal that he soon tries to get rid of, and prepares to greet the Queen before a Royal Premiere. The episode was the first to feature the 'Bean falling from sky' opening, though in a basic design, while it was the first to feature the choral theme tune for the show ("Ecce homo qui est faba"), performed by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral. Written by Robin Driscoll, the first script for the programme, it was produced by Tiger Television, and originally aired on ITV on 5 November 1990.
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Peter Gillman Peter Gillman (born 1942) is a British writer and journalist specializing (but not exclusively) in mountaineering topics. His book, "Direttissima; the Eiger Assault" (1967), also published under the title, "Eiger Direct", co-authored with Dougal Haston, told the story of the ascent of the Eiger North Face in which John Harlin II lost his life.
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David Henry Wilson David Henry Wilson (1937, London - ) is an English writer. As an author he is best known for his children's stories such as the "Jeremy James" series. Wilson has also had a number of plays produced in the United Kingdom, both for children and adults. He is also the author of "The Coachman Rat" (1989), a satirical novel based on the Cinderella story.
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Misfortune (novel) Misfortune, is the 2005 debut novel by Wesley Stace. The "Victorian" novel revolves around a cross-dressing heir/heiress. The book was one of the "Washington Post"'s Books of the Year and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2005. It was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The author, better known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, recorded the traditional ballads and folk songs in the book on the The Love Hall Tryst's 2005 album "Songs of Misfortune".
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Peter Prince Peter Prince (born 10 May 1942) is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel "Play Things" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries "Oppenheimer". His novel "The Good Father" was adapted into a "film" starring Anthony Hopkins. His latest novel "Adam Runaway" was published in 2005.
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From Anna From Anna is a children's novel written by Canadian children's author Jean Little, first published in 1972. It is the story of Anna Solden, a visually impaired child who moves from Germany to Canada with her family, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. The book is one of Jean Little's most popular works.
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English Music (novel) English Music is the sixth novel by Peter Ackroyd. Published in 1992, it is both a "bildungsroman" and, in the words of critic John Barrell, "partly a series of rhapsodies and meditations on the nature of English culture, written in the styles of various great authors." As with all Ackroyd's previous novels, it focuses on London, although on this occasion partly as a backdrop for English culture in general.
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Shine! Shine! is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly "Ragged Dick" and "Silas Snobden's Office Boy", respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy. Its plot and characters focus on Alger's pervasive theme: that in America one could begin with nothing, and with the right attitude, hard work, application, and a little bit of luck, dream a dream and chart a course on which to achieve it. Richard Seff wrote the book, Lee Goldsmith the lyrics and Roger Anderson the music. Anderson and Goldsmith had previously collaborated on the musical "Chaplin".
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Snow White (1967 novel) Snow White is a post-modernist novel by author Donald Barthelme published in 1967 by Atheneum Books. The book inverts the fairy tale of the same name by highlighting the form by discussing the different expectations and compromises the characters make to survive in their world. This is done through Barthelme's fragmentary rhetoric and discourse, by shifting perspectives from the seven "dwarves" or Snow White herself, as well as the wicked step-mother, "Jane." It was Barthelme's first novel, published seven years after he started having his short stories published in literary magazines and publications such as The New Yorker.
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Peter Grimes Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book "The Borough". The "borough" of the opera is a fictional village which shares some similarities with Crabbe's, and later Britten's, own home of Aldeburgh, a town on England's east coast.
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Maximus Musicus Maximus Musicus is an Icelandic children's franchise, including books, CDs, DVDs and family concert programs, aimed at introducing symphonic music to children. The story and part of the music was written by Hallfríður Ólafsdóttir, principal flautist of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. The books are illustrated by Þórarinn Már Baldursson, a violist in the ISO. Conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy is the program's patron.