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Elise Hurst is a Melbourne-based illustrator, fine artist and author, specialising in children's books. She works in a vintage alternate reality, creating characters we feel we know and worlds we would like to inhabit.

 

2025 NEWS
New books in the works
For the rest of this year Elise is working on three exciting books with Compendium.

The Storyteller's Almanac - the much-anticipated new instalment in this open-narrative universe.   

And two secret new books... 

NEW EDITION NOW HERE:  The Storyteller's Handbook has a fabulous new edition. Inside you'll find 52 story-filled images, an introduction from me and a two page Scavenger hunt. This long intriguing list invites the readers to find all manner of things from creatures and characters, to story elements that only you can decide upon.