The Voyage of the Poppykettle
- The Voyage of the Poppykettle
The Voyage of the Poppykettle (later re-published as "Voyage of Poppykettle") is the celebrated 1980 children's book about a group of "hairy Peruvians" setting out from Peru to discover Australia. It was written and illustrated by Robert Ingpen, who also wrote the sequel, "The Unchosen Land".
The story of the Poppykettle was later updated with new material with Michael Lawrence as "The Poppykettle Papers" in 1999.
The story contains reference to the Geelong Keys.
Background
In 1975, Robert Ingpen developed the story based on his work with the United Nations in Peru. As part of that work, he was researching ancient Inca fishing stories, and two elements of that research formed the kernel of the Poppykettle idea: Inca dolls and pottery; and a plaque which commemorated an expedition from the headland at Callao in the 16th century into the Pacific Ocean.
Years later he wrote this children's book and its sequel based on that idea.
These stories were so popular in Ingpen's home, Geelong, that a fountain and an annual Poppykettle Festival celebrate the mythical landing of the "hairy Peruvians".
Ingpen won the 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration for this book.
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