[1] Some of his books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum.
Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and was shown on the BBC between 1950s and 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.
Postgate has subsequently written and illustrated many children's books (Big Mother Plum, Hairy Toe, Smelly Bill, Wild West Willy)[1] and was a main writer for the CBeebies revival of the Clangers (2015–) which won a Bafta in 2015 for Postgate's script and he was nominated again the following year for best writer.
Postgate references some of his illustrative influences as "Quentin Blake, Tony Ross, Maurice Sendak, Don Martin, Sempe and Dr.
[6]"] Postgate has worked as a chef, a painter of horses and sea scenes on old wooden boxes, a freelance cartoonist, and a picture book illustrator.