Daniel Postgate (5 February 1964 –), is an English illustrator, and writer.
His books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum.
In 2014 Daniel Postgate, collaborated with Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel writing many of the episodes winning a Bafta for the episode 'I am the Eggbot'.
After the death of his father, Oliver Postgate, he inherited Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.