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