An acclaimed multi-award winning Australian artist and illustrator with a prolific career spanning many decades in illustrating and writing superb children’s books. Robert Ingpen is the only one of the two Australians whose contribution to children’s literature has been acknowledged with the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2016, at the age of 80, Robert Ingpen received the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Despite being published over 30 years ago (in 1987) this book on conservation is probably more relevant today than ever before. Its simple texts made accessible to children (co-authored by […]
“A Thoughtful way of explaining conservation to children” by Robert Ingpen Read More »
Continuing on from the earlier two posts on Robert Ingpen this one is dedicated to his interest in conservation. Prior to becoming a freelance illustrator, in the late 1950’s Ingpen
Robert Ingpen’s passion for conservation reflected in children’s books Read More »
Born in 1936, Robert Ingpen turns 80 this year, an age commonly associated with slowing down yet the amount of wonderful illustrations he was able to produce in the last
Classic library of the best literary masterpieces with Robert Ingpen’s illustrations Read More »
Robert Ingpen’s friend Michael Page, a South Australian author, who collaborated with Ingpen producing a few books together, regards him as “…one of those rare figures on the modern artistic
Robert Ingpen: a rebel against mediocrity Read More »
Growing up in Geelong in the 1940s, Robert Ingpen was so obsessed by stories that, for a time, he had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. At school, he continued to
Robert Ingpen: he wore odd socks and had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality Read More »