Question: A Miser Brothers' Christmas was based on some of the characters from a stop motion spcieal based on a book by who?
Context: Yellow Jacket: The Beach Crazy Cyclist is a short stop motion animated show for children made in France.  It features the quick and whimsical adventures of a bicycle racer weaing a yellow jacket and his nemesis, a black jacket-wearing cyclist, amongst other toy characters.  The cyclists are always model people but the spectators are toys and models like dolls and crabs.  Black Jacket and Yellow Jacket are always at the centre of the plot, with Black Jacket using some devious trick to try to win and Yellow Jacket generally not trying to stop him, letting fate or karma prevent Black Jacket from winning.  The show is always set at a beach and at a minuscule level.  Sometimes a human will, in stop motion form, enter the show.  After Yellow Jacket wins the first half of the closing credits plays then a small continuation gag plays and the rest of the credits roll.  The sand is real and the bikes leave trails though much of it is not filmed at an actual beach but in a studio. The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.  The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name, illustrated by Kurt Werth.  It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1974 on ABC. bolexbrothers (alternatively Bolex Brothers) is an independent British animation studio based in Bristol.  The studio specialises in stop motion animation, producing numerous short films and commercials, as well as one stop motion feature film, "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" (their second feature, "The Magic Roundabout", was computer animated).  Named after the Bolex brand of 16mm cameras once popular with animators, the studio was established in 1991 by animator and former theatrical effects designer Dave Borthwick , and colleague Dave Alex Riddett. Pixilation (from "pixilated") is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.  The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet.  This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a movie, such as in "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" by the Bolex Brothers. Dragonframe is stop motion animation software.  It has been used to make several full-length motion picture films, including Disney's "Frankenweenie" and Laika's "Coraline", "The Boxtrolls", and "ParaNorman", as well as the stop motion television show "Shaun the Sheep".  It has also been used to shoot stop motion scenes in live action movies, including the holochess scene in "", and numerous stop motion shorts.  s of 2015 Dragonframe has been developed for use on the Windows and Mac operating systems. Go motion is a variation of stop motion animation which incorporates motion blur into each frame involving motion.  It was co-developed by Industrial Light & Magic and Phil Tippett.  Stop motion animation can create a disorienting, and distinctive staccato effect, because the animated object is perfectly sharp in every frame, since each frame of the animation was actually shot when the object was perfectly still.  Real moving objects in similar scenes of the same movie will have motion blur, because they moved while the shutter of the camera was open.  Filmmakers use a variety of techniques to simulate motion blur, such as moving the model slightly during the exposure of each film frame or using a petroleum smeared glass plate in front of the camera lens to blur the moving areas. Stop motion (hyphenated stop-motion when used as an adjective) is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own.  The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence.  Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning.  Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay-mation".  Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect.  Stop motion can also use sequential drawing in a similar manner to traditional animation, such as a flip book.  Stop motion using humans is sometimes referred to as pixilation or pixilate animation. Still motion is a method of displaying many images one after another as frames, using the technique of "frame-by-frame", similar to the concept of stop motion.  The difference between this and stop motion, however, is that still motion is not a method of animation and therefore, each frame does not have to be related in any way.  It is a style of editing which is usually used to create an intense effect. The New Adventures of Pinocchio is a syndicated stop motion animated television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in the United States and made by Dentsu Studios in Japan.  Created by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and his partner Jules Bass, it was based on the book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" written by Italian author, Carlo Collodi.  The series was Rankin/Bass' first production to be made in "Animagic", a stop motion puppet technique which, in association with the company, was done by Tadahito Mochinaga's MOM Productions (before Mochinaga leaves for China after the finished animation for "Mad Monster Party? ").  A total of 130 five-minute "chapters" were produced in 1960–61.  These segments made up a series of five-chapter, 25-minute episodes.  During 1963–64, the series was also aired in Japan on Fuji TV as part of another stop motion TV series, "Prince Ciscorn" (シスコン王子, lit.  "Ciscorn Ōji"), based on the manga by Fujiko Fujio and also produced by Tadahito Mochinaga for Studio KAI and Dentsu. A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a stop motion spin-off special based on some of the characters from the 1974 Rankin-Bass special "The Year Without a Santa Claus".  Distributed by Warner Bros.  Animation under their Warner Premiere label (the rights holders of the post-1974 Rankin-Bass library) and Toronto-based Cuppa Coffee Studios, the one-hour special premiered on ABC Family on Saturday, December 13, 2008, during the network's annual The 25 Days of Christmas programming.  Mickey Rooney and George S. Irving reprised their respective roles as Santa Claus and Heat Miser at ages 88 and 86.  Snow Miser, originally portrayed by Dick Shawn who died in 1987, was voiced by Juan Chioran, while Mrs. Claus, voiced by Shirley Booth in the original, was portrayed by Catherine Disher (because Booth had died in 1992).  The movie aimed to emulate the Rankin/Bass animation style.  This is the last Christmas special to feature Mickey Rooney as Santa Claus, as he died in 2014, as well as the last time George Irving voiced Heat Miser, as he died in 2016.
Answer: Phyllis McGinley