Deborah Mary Niland OAM was born in 1950 in New Zealand to Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland.

Together with her twin sister, the late Kilmeny Niland they attended the Julian Ashton Art School.  The twins often collaborated on projects.  They were awarded the first Visual arts Board prize for the best illustrated children’s book of the year for Mulga Bill’s Bicycle.

Deborah has written and illustrated over 60 children’s books.

The National Centre holds many fine examples of artwork relating to these following titles:

• All Australian Funny and Frightful Verse
• Annie to the Rescue
• Annie’s Chair
• The Big Green Thing
• Chatterbox
• Double Trouble
• Ephemera
• Families are Funny
• Guess What There’s a Hippo on the Hospital Roof
• Grandpa Baby
• Haunts and Taunts
• Hey Hippo Do Babies Eat Cake Too
• Hooray There’s a Hippo on Our Roof Having a Birthday
• It’s Bedtime William
• James
• Kneedeep written by Trevor Todd
• Let’s Play
• Miss Strawberry Verses
• My Hippo is on Our Caravan Roof Getting Sunburnt
• Spooks and Spirits
• Stuff and Nonsense
• The Jacky Dandy Songbook
• The Sugar-Plum Christmas Book
• The Sugar-Plum Song Book
• The Tall Book of Tall Tales
• The Tall Man and the 12 Babies
• There’s a Hippo Eating Cake on the Roof 30th Ed                      
• This Little Piggy Went Dancing
• This Little Piggy Went Singing     
• Wall Charts
• The Very Sniffy Dog
• When I Was a Baby
• When Coco Was a Kitten
• Velvet Paws and Whiskers

To view the artworks by Deborah Niland, please contact the National Centre.

 

See also:
Niland, Deborah and Niland, Kilmeny
Niland, Kilmeny
Park, Ruth

Posted by: NCACL | Published: 10 Apr 2023