Tania Ingram is an internationally published, best-selling author of children’s picture books and novels including the rollicking Jinny and Cooper series and the hilarious Aggie Flea series. She has acted as a peer assessor on the literature panel for Arts South Australia’s grants program and is an active ambassador for the Premier’s Reading Challenge.
She was born in Whyalla, South Australia and moved to Adelaide as a teenager. She studied at the University of South Australia and graduated with a Masters Degree in clinical psychology. Prior to becoming a full time writer she was a child psychologist, specialising in brain injury, disability and adolescent mental health.
Tania’s first picture book, Dog on Log was published in 2013. This story evolved from a game Tania played with her young daughter. The purpose of the game was to teach rhyme, phonetics and prepositions. Tania sent the story to a publisher and was thrilled when it was picked up for publication.
My Teacher’s Big Bad Secret, the first book in the hilarious Jinny and Cooper series was published in February 2016, and was shortlisted in the 2016 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards.
Book #2, Revenge of the Stone Witch was also published in February 2016 while Books #3, Curse of the Genie’s Ring and #4, Search for the Sea Bogle, followed in September 2016.
Tania also has an Aussie Mates book for junior readers, The Great Barbie Disaster, which was published in November 2016 and her celebrated picture book, Oma’s Buttons, was released in April 2018.
The first book in her bestselling Aggie Flea series, Aggie Flea is NOT a liar!, came out in September 2023 and was listed as a Notable Book in the 2024 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. Book 2, Aggie Flea Steals the Show! was released in March 2024 and received a Honour Book award in the 2025 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
Tania’s mid-grade novel, The Other Shadow, came out in July 2024 to glowing reviews. In February 2025, The Other Shadow was listed as a CBCA Notable Book in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. It was also shortlisted for a Forevability Award and The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the 2025 NSW Literary Awards. Her picture book, Walls, which was written specifically for classroom use, also came out in July 2024. In October 2024, her first baby book, The Bug Book, was released with Little Book Press.
In her spare time, Tania likes to read children’s fiction, crochet crooked rugs and sing to her chickens who pretend to be oblivious to her talent.
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