The wonderful Ingpen

Robert Ingpen received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia book of the year awards.

Want to see a selection of Robert’s work?

Check out a copy of “Wonderlands : the illustration art of Robert Ingpen”

Step into a magical world with this book of wonderful images, that have made Robert Ingpen a worldwide household name for children's illustration. Here you will find his own autobiographical tales, illustrator's notes, original sketches and illustrations from his award-winning publications. Robert leads us on his journeys into the wondrous landscapes of the classics he has so famously illustrated (Peter Pan’s Neverland, Otter’s Riverbank, The Wizard’s Oz, and Alice's Wonderland). 

Or step into the magical landscapes of his own imagination and the more real but no less magical scenery of his own beloved Australia, which reveals the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way (notably The Coorong, and Robe in South Australia). 



Robert, his wife Angela and their young family spent their summer holidays at Robe in the 1960s and 70s, where Robert drew and painted the old buildings of the town and surrounding farm buildings. Then came Colin Thiele's  "Storm Boy" and changed Robert's life as a childrens' book illustrator.

Storm Boy's humpy, on the Coorong

The Poppykettle

 Robert's astonishing creative vision has breathed life into more than one hundred books and delighted countless children around the world throughout his remarkable career as an illustrator. He was the man who gave us the Poppykettle and the Hairy Pervians, and retelling of many classic stories.

Peter Pan

Michael Morpurgo states that 'Ingpen's drawings are utterly compelling. Every brush-stroke of his beautifully conceived illustrations is a tribute to what is going on in the story’.

 “Wonderlands” is a book filled with original sketches and illustrations, and is a fitting celebration of Robert Ingpen's work as a master illustrator and storyteller. 
And a worthy recipient of the CBCA lifetime achievement award.