![]() However, even though I obviously and of course adore the book title of Kipper and also think that Mick Inkpen’s illustrations of Kipper the dog are colourfully expressive and definitely supremely cute (albeit I personally would much rather have Kipper be a larger breed like a Labrador, a German Shepherd, a Golden Retriever or naturally a Rottweiler), quite frankly, the entire storyline of Kipper almost immediately becomes a bit too unrealistic and too anthropomorphic for me. Well to tell the truth, I simply had to read Mick Inkpen’s 1991 picture book Kipper (when I noticed the book title on Open Library) because our Rottweiler when I was a child (and a teenager) was in fact also named Kipper.Īnd indeed, this sense of family nostalgia and fond remembrances certainly has made me appreciate Mick Inkpen writing about and illustrating a story about a delightful and funnily entertaining canine with the exact same name as my, as our treasured family dog (and to smile at the fact that Kipper as a name for a dog is obviously acceptable and not even all that inherently strange, unlike a schoolmate tried to make me believe when I told her our Rottweiler’s name in grade six). And yet it’s true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself” “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. In 1989 The Blue Balloon established him as a truly original voice in children’s picture books, by which time Mick and his wife Debbie had two children of their own. They also worked in children’s television. Together they developed a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express magazine, later to become a first series of children’s picture books. During this period he worked with Nick Butterworth, a fellow children’s author, from whom he learned design and typography. ![]() He began his career as a graphic designer, declining a place to study English at Cambridge University. Mick lives in Essex with his wife and two children. He and his wife, Debbie, also had children of their own by this point: “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. In 1989 The Blue Balloon was published to great acclaim, and established him as an important and original voice in children’s picture books. He began his career as a graphic designer, and worked with another children’s author Nick Butterworth (of Percy the Park Keeper fame) on a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express. His best-loved characters are probably Kipper and Wibbly Pig – who are both stars of their very own TV series! His books have sold over 4 million copies, and have been translated into over twenty different languages.
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