Trying

Kobi Yamada is a New York Times best-selling author, the creator of many inspiring gift books, and the president of Compendium, a company of amazing people doing amazing things. He happily lives with the love of his life and their two super fun kids in the land of flying salmon where he gets to believe in his ideas all day long. He thinks he just might be the luckiest person on the planet.

Elise Hurst is an Australian self-trained artist, illustrator and writer, specialising in children’s books. To date she has published over 55 books and has received frequent commendations for her work. Her most recent books are ‘Girl on Wire’ written by Lucy Estela, ‘Adelaide’s Secret World’ (shortlisted PM’s Literary Award 2016) and ‘Imagine a City’ (USBBY Outstanding International Book 2017) which she wrote and illustrated. She also illustrates covers, novels and various other graphic media, and carries her narrative anthropomorphic work into oil paintings and drawings for which she is gathering a large following throughout the world.