John Coates (7 November 1927 – 16 September 2012) was a British film producer, best known for producing the animated film "The Snowman" based on the picture book by Raymond Briggs, one of the first animated productions screened on Channel Four and still repeated every year on the channel.
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.
Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children.
 He is best known in Britain for his story "The Snowman", a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name.
 The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters.
Father Christmas is a 1991 animated short based on two books written by Raymond Briggs: "Father Christmas" and "Father Christmas Goes on Holiday", published in 1973 and 1975 respectively.
 It was first aired in Britain in 1991 on Channel 4, nine years after "The Snowman", another animated Briggs adaptation produced for the same channel.
 This movie was dedicated to the late actor John McGuire.
 The film was first released on DVD in 2000, bundled with "The Snowman".
 It was later released separately.
True as a Turtle is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn and Keith Michell.
 In the film, a young couple embark on a voyage on a ketch named "Turtle".
 John Coates wrote the screenplay, based on his novel of the same name.
Father Christmas is a British children's picture book written and drawn by Raymond Briggs and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1973.
 Briggs won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
 For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
"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.
When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs.
 The book was later made into an animated film.
The Bear is a 1998 short animated television film directed by Hilary Audus.
 Based on the book of the same name by the author Raymond Briggs, the film first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom during Christmas 1998.
 It was also released on Buena Vista Home Video in 1998, the year before its release on British television.
 It won a Peabody Award in 1998.

Question: John Coates and Raymond Briggs are best known for a film and book of what name?
Answer: The Snowman