James Walters, Graphic designer - Cambodia

Young boys enjoy the bilingual picture story book about elephant conservation James Walters, a graphic designer who has worked in the Australian advertising industry, worked as an Australian Youth Ambassador with the Phnom Penh-based non-government organisation, Save Cambodia's Wildlife. His brief was to write and design a book in support of the campaign to preserve Cambodia's fast dwindling population of elephants. He wrote and illustrated (with some help from the team at Save Cambodia's Wildlife) 'The Little White Elephant', a bilingual (Khmer and English) picture story book for children, especially of farming and hunting families. 'The Little White Elephant' proved an instant success because it tackled the difficult questions around farmers and elephants sharing the environment in an appealing story for children. Elephants were highlighted for their ecological and cultural value and not as just seen as pests which destroy crops. The former youth ambassador is now back in Cambodia working on a new children's book. Illustration from the picture story book about elephant conservation