Robert Roger Ingpen AM,

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(born 13 October 1936) is an

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graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international

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in 1986.

Early life

Ingpen was born in

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, Victoria, and attended

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to 1957. He graduated with a Diploma of Graphic Art from

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in 1958, where he studied with

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Career

In 1958, Ingpen was appointed by the

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(CSIRO) as an artist to interpret and communicate the results of scientific research. From 1968 Ingpen worked as a freelance designer, illustrator and author. He was also a member of a

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team in

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and

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until 1975, where he designed pamphlets on fisheries and was involved in "a number of Australian conservation and environmental projects". He left the CSIRO to work full-time as a freelance writer in 1968. Ingpen's interest in conservation issues continued, and he was one of the founding members of the

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Work

Ingpen has written or illustrated more than 100 published books. These include children's picture books and fictional stories for all ages. His nonfiction books mostly relate to history, conservation, environment and health issues. His most frequent collaborator has been the author and editor Michael Page. Ingpen has designed many

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for Australia, as well as the flag and coat of arms for the Northern Territory. Ingpen has created a number of public murals in

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and the

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. He also has designed bronze statues, which include the Poppykettle Fountain in the

Steam Packet Gardens (currently dry due to drought restrictions) and the bronze doors to the

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. His most recent work is the design and working drawings for a tapestry, which was woven by The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, to celebrate the 150 years of the

Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadiu ...

. In 1982 Ingpen designed the

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for the Governors of the Courtney Oldmeadow Children's Literature Foundation. The Dromkeen is awarded annually to Australians in recognition of contributions to children's literature and Ingpen received it himself in 1989 for his own work in the field. Ingpen was illustrator for the centenary editions of

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's '' Peter Pan and Wendy'' and

Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as ''The Reluctant Dragon (short story), T ...

's ''

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'' for which he bases characterisations on contemporary figures and personalities. In 2007 Ingpen illustrated a picture book by Liz Lofthouse called ''Ziba Came on a Boat'', which was nominated for many Australian awards including the Australian Children's Book Council Awards and the

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Exhibitions

In 1999 Ingpen had a major retrospective exhibition in

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, which travelled to other regions of

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for a two-month period. Also in 1999 an exhibition of the original artworks and book launch for ''

Around the World in 80 Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...

'' was held in London.Melaleuca Galleries - Robert Ingpen
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, Italy, and works from

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were exhibited in New York City. In 2002 Ingpen's work featured in the inaugural exhibition at the

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, and he donated to the Museum the illustrations for Charise Neugebauer's ''Halloween Circus at the Graveyard Lawn'' (2003).

Awards

The biennial

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conferred by the

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is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Ingpen won the illustration award in 1986.

Patricia Wrightson Patricia Wrightson OBE (19 June 1921 – 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books. Employing a 'magic realism' style, her books, including the award-winning ''The Nargun and the Stars' ...

won the writing award that year, and they remain the only Australians among more than 60 Andersen Medal recipients. Ingpen had illustrated Wrightson's most highly regarded work, ''

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'' (1973), a children's fantasy rooted in

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. He received the Australian

in 1989. In 2005 he was made honorary doctor of arts by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and in 2007 made a member of the

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for "service to literature as an illustrator and author of children's books, to art design and education, and as a supporter of health care organisations." Awards for particular works: * Visual Arts Board award for children's book illustration for ''Storm Boy'' * 1980 ''River Murray Mary'' was commended in the Children's Book of the Year awards * 1980 Ditmar Australian Fiction Award for ''Australian Gnomes'' ( Poppykettle, book one)

Works

As illustrator only

* '' Storm Boy'' (1974) by

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* ''The Runaway Punt'' (1976) by Michael F. Page * ''The Australian Countrywoman's Cookbook'' (1977) * ''Running the Brumbies: True Adventures of a Modern Bushman'' (1979) by Colin Stone * ''Lincoln's Place'' (1978) by Colin Thiele * ''Chadwick's Chimney'' (1979) by Colin Thiele * ''River Murray Mary'' (1979) by Colin Thiele * ''I Rhyme My Time: a Selection of Poems for Young People'' (1980) by

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* ''Turning Points in the Making of Australia'' (1980) by Michael Page * ''Night of the Muttonbirds'' (1981) by

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* ''This Peculiar Colony'' (1981) by Ronald Rose * ''Clancy of the Overflow'' (1982) by

Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the ...

* ''Churchill Island'' (1982) text by

Graham Pizzey Graham Martin Pizzey AM (4 July 1930 – 12 November 2001) was a noted Australian author, photographer and ornithologist. Early life and education Graham Pizzey was born and grew up in grew up in East Ivanhoe on the Yarra River. At age sev ...

* ''

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'' (1986) * ''

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'' (1987) by

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* ''A Strange Expedition'' (1988) by Mark Twain * ''Child's Story'' (1988) by

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* ''A Christmas Tree'' (1988) by Charles Dickens

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* ''

'' (1988) by

* ''Peacetimes'' (1989) by

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* ''The Great Deeds of Superheroes'' (1989) by

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* ''The Great Deeds of Heroic Women'' (1990) by Maurice Saxby * ''The Lands of the Bible'' (1992) by Philip Wilkinson and Jacqueline Dineen * ''The Magical East'' (1992) by Wilkinson and Michael Pollard * ''The Master Builders'' (1992) by Wilkinson and Pollard * '' The Mediterranean'' (1992) by Wilkinson and Dineen * ''Brahminy: the Story of a Boy and a Sea Eagle'' (c1995) by Colin Thiele * ''The Drover's Boy'' (1997) by

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* ''Jacob, the Boy from Nuremberg'' (1998) by Enjar Agertoft * '' The Poppykettle Papers'' (London: Pavilion, 1999) by Michael Lawrence – part of the Poppykettle series * ''Who is the World For?'' (2000) by

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* ''Shakespeare: His Work and His World'' (Walker, 2001) by

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; * ''Halloween Circus'' (NY: North–South, 2002) by Charise Neugebauer – a Michael Neugebauer Book * ''The Tapestry Story: Celebrating 150 Years of the Melbourne Cricket Ground'' (2003) by

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* ''The Wizard's Book of Spells'' (2003) by Beatrice Phillpotts * ''The Magic Crystal'' (ca. 2003) by Brigitte Weninger * ''Dickens: His Work and His World'' (Walker, 2005) by

; * ''Mustara'' (2007) by

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* ''Ziba Came on a Boat'' (2008) by Liz Lofthouse ;Children's Classics * ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (2000) by

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873 in Frenchref name=austlit/> * ''Peter Pan and Wendy'' ( 2004) by

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centenary edition * ''Treasure Island'' ( 2005) by

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* ''The Ugly Duckling'' (Walker, 2005) by

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843 in Danishref name=austlit/> * ''The Jungle Book'' ( 2006) by

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* ''The Wind in the Willows'' ( 2007?) by

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centenary edition * ''A Christmas Carol and "A Christmas Tree"'' ( 2008) by

843 and 1850* ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' ( 2009) by

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* ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' ( 2010) by

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873 in Frenchref name=palazzo/> * ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' ( 2011) by

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* ''The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense'' ( 2012) by

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(1812–1888) – Lear bicentenary edition * ''Just So Stories'' (2013) by

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ref name=walker/> * ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (2014) by

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883 in Italianref name=walker/> 12 works named by Palazzo Editions in two pages on Ingpen. ''The Night Before Christmas'' and ''The Owl and the Pussycat'' differ in format, larger and much shorter than the "Palazzo Children's Classics" series (192 to 240pp, 235 x 195mm).

Fiction writing

* Poppykettle series"The Poppykettle Series"
AUSTLIT (austlit.edu.au). Retrieved 18 July 2014. ** ''Australian Gnomes'' (Adelaide: Rigby Opal Books, 1979) ** ''

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'' (Rigby, 1980) ** ''The Unchosen Land'' (1981) * ''Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in Between'' (1983) by Ingpen and Bryan Mellonie; North American title, evidently ''Lifetimes: a Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children'', * ''The Great Bullocky Race'' (1984) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''The Idle Bear'' (1986) * ''Out of This World: the Complete Book of Fantasy'' (1986) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''The Age of Acorns'' (1988) * ''The Dreamkeeper: a Letter from Robert Ingpen to His Granddaughter Alice Elizabeth'' (1995) * ''The Afternoon Treehouse'' (1996) * ''Folk Tales & Fables of Asia & Australia'' (1992) by Ingpen and

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* ''Once Upon a Place'' (1999) * ''A Bear Tale'' (2000) * ''The Rare Bear '' (2004)

Non-fiction writing

* ''In Pastures Green: the Story of the Presbyterian Church, Sale, Gippsland, Victoria'' (c1954) * ''Pioneers of Wool'' (1972) * ''Pioneer Settlement in Australia'' (1973) * ''Robe: a Portrait of the Past'' (1975) * ''Don Dunstan's Cookbook'' (1976) * ''Paradise and Beyond: Tasmania '' (1978) by Ingpen and N.C.K. Evers * ''Australian Gnomes'' (1979) * ''Marking Time: Australia's Abandoned Buildings'' (1979) * ''Australia's Heritage Watch: an Overview of Australian Conservation'' (1981) * ''Aussie Battlers'' (1982) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''Australian Inventions and Innovations'' (1982) by Ingpen, Sally Carruthers, and others * ''Colonial South Australia: Its People and Buildings'' (1985) by Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''Worldly Dogs'' (1986) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''The Making of Australians'' (1987) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''Conservation'' (1987) by Ingpen and Margaret Dunkle * '' Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People'' (1987) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page * ''A Celebration of Customs & Rituals of the World'' (1994) by Ingpen and Philip Wilkinson * ''Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: the Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the World'' (1990) by Ingpen and Wilkinson * ''In the Wake of the Mary Celeste'' (c. 2004) by Ingpen and

Gary Crew Gary David Crew (born 23 September 1947) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. Awards Crew has won the Australian Children's Book of the Year on four occasions. Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers * 1991 '' Strange ...

* ''Imprints of Generations'' (2006) * ''The Boy from Bowral: the Story of Sir Donald Bradman'' (2007) * ''Looking for Clancy'' (National Library of Australia, 2013), featuring "

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" by A.B. Paterson

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