Daniel Postgate

When Postgate moved to London he became a regular contributor to The Sunday Times. Eventually he wrote a story and made it into a rough book which he sent to fifteen publishers. Postgate has written many children’s books (big mother plum, hairy toe, smelly bill, wild west willy) and written multiple episodes of the CBeebies Television show The clangers (2015–) which won a Bafta in 2015 and he was nominated again the following year for best writer.

Daniel Postgate (5 February 1964 –), is an English illustrator, and writer. His books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big mother Plum. In 2014 Daniel Postgate, collaborated with Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel writing many of the episodes winning a Bafta for the episode ‘I am the Eggbot’. After the death of his father, Oliver Postgate, he inherited Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles’ Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.

Postgate was born in Whitstable hospital on 5 February 1964. He was the youngest of six children. He grew up in Blean, a village just outside Whitstable, and he lived in a large house which was once a pub.