Penelope Janic Penelope Janic i(A41917 works by) (a.k.a. Penelope St. Vincent Welch; Penelope Janjic)
Also writes as: Penny Osterhaus
Born: Established: 1940 ;
Gender: Female
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Penelope Janic studied art at Sydney Technical School, and has worked in film animation and design for television. She has written and illustrated children's literature and children's readers.

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y separately published work icon Donovan and the Lost Birthday Melbourne : Heinemann , 1968 Z922551 1968 single work picture book children's Donovan lives on the Ten Mile Plain - west of the Black Stump - he is a wanderer, a seeker - an itinerant Australian donkey with the kind of personality problem most of us have to face some time. His mates include a nervous emu called Hegweg, Custer, a cannonball of a cockatoo, and Quincy, a fair dinkum 'roo.
1970 commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
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