Published Works
ANTHOLOGIES OF AFRICAN VERSE
Deep Reflections (PIA, 1999)
Sincerely Yours (PIA, 2001)
Meandering Paths (PIA, 2002)
Sincerely Yours (PIA, 2001)
Meandering Paths (PIA, 2002)
GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS (© JA DURNO 2007)
Who needs Tv, when a toilet-roll-telescope can ZOOT you around the world in mere minutes!
When Gav gets reading his Big Bathroom Book his imagination draws him out of his humble home & drops him ZAP! in the middle of fantastic lands.
Here he eats dust with Colonel Custard, crosses the Great Lakes on the back of a giant kangaroo & plays frisbee with the sun!
Somewhere between biscuit canyons, paint lakes, teacup castles & tin-can Baobabs he expends huge amounts of creative energy, which make for absolutely fabulous fun. WOW!
Gav's friends call him, Gullible, to believe in the ancient magic of books - but then so are we, that's why we're busy reading them right now....
Sally Whines' illustrations of Jolanta Durno's witty, woozy & wacky tale are brilliant.
Combining indigenous craft with digital photography, they make for visual feast!
Included within the pages are beadwork, wirework, fabric-printing, clay modelling, acrylics & oils, and skilfully hand-rendered water-colour illustrations.
Sally has made use of pot-scourers & broom bristles in some of her characters, as well as recycled waste to create a psychedelic baobab tree.
Africa is, after all, the cradle of humankind, and of storytelling.
AWESOME!
When Gav gets reading his Big Bathroom Book his imagination draws him out of his humble home & drops him ZAP! in the middle of fantastic lands.
Here he eats dust with Colonel Custard, crosses the Great Lakes on the back of a giant kangaroo & plays frisbee with the sun!
Somewhere between biscuit canyons, paint lakes, teacup castles & tin-can Baobabs he expends huge amounts of creative energy, which make for absolutely fabulous fun. WOW!
Gav's friends call him, Gullible, to believe in the ancient magic of books - but then so are we, that's why we're busy reading them right now....
Sally Whines' illustrations of Jolanta Durno's witty, woozy & wacky tale are brilliant.
Combining indigenous craft with digital photography, they make for visual feast!
Included within the pages are beadwork, wirework, fabric-printing, clay modelling, acrylics & oils, and skilfully hand-rendered water-colour illustrations.
Sally has made use of pot-scourers & broom bristles in some of her characters, as well as recycled waste to create a psychedelic baobab tree.
Africa is, after all, the cradle of humankind, and of storytelling.
AWESOME!
MONKEY BUSINESS (© JA DURNO 2007)
(JA DURNO 1999, Published by Cambridge University Press, SA)
When the seaside Monkey Family come across a messy campsite, they are tempted with tasting all kinds of sticky, gooey & smoky junk.
Not being accustomed to dealing this kind of stuff, they end up accidentally causing a fire.
Thankfully, they manage to use their monkey minds to deal with the chaos, and to teach the humans a thing or two - monkey see, monkey do!
Monkey Business has sold internationally though CUP, since 1999.
Sally Whines' illustrations of Jolanta Durno's lyrical tale make for a humorous & delightful masterpiece.
When the seaside Monkey Family come across a messy campsite, they are tempted with tasting all kinds of sticky, gooey & smoky junk.
Not being accustomed to dealing this kind of stuff, they end up accidentally causing a fire.
Thankfully, they manage to use their monkey minds to deal with the chaos, and to teach the humans a thing or two - monkey see, monkey do!
Monkey Business has sold internationally though CUP, since 1999.
Sally Whines' illustrations of Jolanta Durno's lyrical tale make for a humorous & delightful masterpiece.
