Book cover design: "Jedro's Bane"

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2002 (Gold)

Client: Tafelberg Publishers

Jedro's Bane by Peter Slingsby was the other gold prize winner in this year's Sanlam competition.

A truly South African story, it revolves around a boy called Jedro, a San (a.k.a. "Bushman") from the Cape region in South Africa who is forced to deal with the turmoil of his people's land being taken by the then British rulers of the Cape Province. Actually it's a story within a story and parallels are drawn between a modern teenager's troubles and those of Jedro in a very descriptive and colourful adventure aimed at teenagers.

The back cover illustration continues the theme of the front, with a puffadder taken from a scene in the book. The puffadder symbolizes danger, a challenge, so to speak. Konrad has a love of sunsets and nocturnal scenes — see The Waterbearer page and click on the magnifying glass.

More Sanlam winners can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnails to the left (scroll down if needed). To view the back cover for this book, click on the magnifying glass.

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