James (The Snowman)



James is the main protagonist in the 1978 book The Snowman and it's 1982 film adaptation.

The Snowman
One snowy Christmas Eve, James goes off into his back garden to play in the snow and decides to build a snowman and gives it lumps of coal for eyes and buttons, an orange for his nose, draws on a mouth and lastly gives him a hat and scarf. Just after making the snowman, James is called back into his house by his mother as it is his bedtime. Later that night, James goes downstairs to check on his snowman, but then on the stroke of midnight, to James's surprise, the snowman comes to live and comes into the house and James shows him around such as the living room where the snowman goes over to the fireplace but moves away from it because it was starting to cause him to melt. They then go into the kitchen where the snowman tries on other fruit for noses before James takes him upstairs into his room and later his parents where the snowman tries on some of their clothes. James and the snowman then go outside where they go for a ride on James's father's motorbike. After returning to the garden, the snowman takes James's hand and they fly off into the air and end up in the North Pole, where a party attended by other snowmen is taking place. When there James also meets Father Christmas who gives him a scarf for a present. As the sun is beginning to rise, James and the snowman return home and give each other a hug before, James goes back into his house and into his bed. In the morning, James wakes up and rushes downstairs into the garden to see the snowman only to his sadness that he has melted and James takes out his scarf and mourns his friend.

The Snowman and The Snowdog
James doesn't physically appear in the sequel but appears in a photo of himself and the snowman.