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This is #1 in the 'Contemporary Market' (roughly early 1980s to the present day): Raymond Briggs' 'The Snowman'.

Although it's not particularly 'contemporary' (first published in 1978) I've used 'The Snowman' to mark a noticeable separation point from that incredibly rich 'middle period' from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. Although Roger Hargreaves' 'Mr. Men' series had already demonstrated huge marketing opportunities, 'The Snowman' was to take things even further, standing at the forefront of the globalisation of children's picture books. From this point on picture books would need to make back their huge capital investment by being translated all over the world, and the huge success of the accompanying animation (and the subsequent merchandising opportunities) made publishers realise that a great children's story can be far more than just a book.

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