Elise Hurst

Elise Hurst has written five children’s books and illustrated over fifty.

Some of her picture books (which she also wrote) are The Elephants' Big Day Out, A Dream of Bunyips Dancing and The Night Garden, which was shortlisted for the CBCA’s Book of the Year: Early Childhood award in 2008.

As well as being an illustrator, Elise has a career in fine art and is an occasional lecturer at RMIT. She and her husband live in Melbourne.