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Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman won the 1996 Mother Goose Award for best newcomer to children's picture books for When Martha's Away (also winner of the 1996 National Art Library Illustration Awards). He is also the authorillustrator of Bad News, I'm in Charge! (9781844284566). He has collaborated with Allan Ahlberg on the bestselling picture books The Pencil, The Runaway Dinner and Previously. He lives in London.

Featured Books, with extracts illustrated by Bruce Ingman

Everybody Was a Baby Once
Allan Ahlberg
Age 3+. Shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award 2011, which honours excellence in poetry written for children. A wonderful collection of the simplest and most joyous poems produced in a gorgeous picture book format. Nineteen delightful poems about everything from meeting a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Poetry
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Everybody Was a Baby Once
Allan Ahlberg
Shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award 2011, which honours excellence in poetry written for children. A wonderful collection of the simplest and most joyous poems produced in a gorgeous picture book format. Nineteen delightful poems about everything from meeting a witch...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Books illustrated by Bruce Ingman

Ronny Rock Starring in a Thousand Tiny Explosions
Merryn Threadgould
Ronny Rock is a very, very lucky boy. Why is he lucky? Because he lives with his dad, Rock the Baker, and this bakery is one of the most exciting places on the high street, if not the world. It's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

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Ronny Rock Starring in Monster Cake Meltdown
Merryn Threadgould
Ronny loves nothing more than to watch his Dad create extraordinary birthday cakes - fire-red racing cars, chocolate trains with candled angelica tracks and dancing mice so real it's hard to believe they are edible! One evening, Ronny's Dad has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011

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When Martha's Away
Bruce Ingman
Martha may think her cat Lionel sleeps the day away while she is at school, but she is quite mistaken. Lionel is a worldly-wise cat with a jam-packed schedule. He busies himself during the day by catching up on his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010

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The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg
When a pencil draws a rubber, a battle of wits ensues! A pencil draws a boy, a dog, a cat and a whole world for them to play in. Then the pencil draws a brush, and the brush adds colour...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009

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Previously
Allan Ahlberg
Do you know what Jack was doing before he climbed the beanstalk? Or what Jack and Jill were arguing about before they went up the hill? And what happened before that? And even before that? This book presents a topsy-turvy,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008

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The Runaway Dinner
Allan Ahlberg
Banjo is about to tuck into his sausage when it jumps right up off the plate and runs away. But the sausage - whose name is Melvin - isn't alone. He's followed by the fork, the knife, the table, the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007

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Double Pink
Kate Feiffer
Madison grows up to love all things pink. She wears pink clothes, she has her room painted pink, she eats pink food...she just can't get enough Pink! But, after winning first prize at school on Wear Your Favourite Colour to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2006

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Boing!
Sean Taylor
A boinging, bouncing comedy with a masterful display of emergency trampolining skills! A terrible thing has happened to the Great Elastic Marvel (five times World Trampolining Champion)! As he practises his deadly difficult quadruple headfirst flip, he flips out of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2005

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Bad News, I'm in Charge!
Bruce Ingman
One day, with the help of his metal detector, Danny discovers an ancient treasure-chest that gives him power to rule the land. He wastes no time making changes: pets in school, no dentists or hairdressers, and Mum and Dad in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2004

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