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She studied with her twin sister Deborah Niland q. After gaining her Diploma of Drawing, she travelled and studied informally in the United Kingdom and Europe. Niland produced animation, children's books, wildlife art, miniatures, portraits, cards and prints. She won numerous prizes in national and international competitions, and one of her portraits was purchased by Australia's National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Niland wrote and illustrated many children's books, some of them in collaboration with her sister.
Niland is the mother of Tom Champion q. Burleigh Heads Library Borrow it. Burleigh Waters Library Borrow it. Coolangatta Library Borrow it. Elanora Library Borrow it. Helensvale Library Borrow it. Local Studies Library Borrow it. Mobile Library Borrow it. Nerang Library Borrow it. The illustrations by Deborah Niland this family's children's book credentials go back to Kilmeny and Deborah's mother and Champion's grandmother, Ruth Park communicate the humour without taking themselves too seriously and are a perfect match for this refreshingly meaningless treat.
A neat allegory of the obsession with implants and pout enhancers, the story makes a mockery of all this preening until, finally, the trussed-up grey bird falls from grace - onto the head of another little grey bird, which is very pleased to see it. Thanks to some amusing moments, the story carries its subtext lightly but falls short of the Aesop-style conclusion that the dramatic set-up deserves. Understated cool is becoming increasingly common in picture books and typically features characters whose physical relationship to living creatures is arbitrary.
Its creator, Oliver Jeffers, is a talented proponent of the ''whatever'' school of big heads, dot eyes and stick limbs. The pair play backgammon together but the penguin's increasing obsession with what to do with his wings sees him volunteer to be shot out of a cannon. Happily, the boy with the tenuous legs is there to catch him in his slightly more convincing arms and the friends wander away, content to stick to backgammon.
The charm here is in the connection between the two characters, expressed by the aching distance between the two dots of the penguin's eyes inclined up towards the dot eyes of the boy who, to press the point, is on stilts. The dog is contemptuous of normal species-specific activities such as fetching a stick.
Instead, it yearns to do ballet but is repeatedly told it cannot.
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