Elisha Cooper, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-001423-0
Cooper's (Ballpark; Dance!) deliciously diverting book tackles a subject of intrinsic appeal to kids. The author gives the scoop on ice-cream making and anticipates all of their questions, answering them with, well, good humor—and with...
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Elisha Cooper. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-371-9
Like a Japanese brush painter, Cooper (8: An Animal Alphabet) uses bold, black lines to trace the outlines of a white cat; it roams through an apartment, playing with yarn and gazing at the bird feeder. Then a black kitten arrives, and the white cat
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Elisha Cooper. Pantheon, $23.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-101-87123-2
Children’s book author Cooper (Train) takes the grimmest of subject matters—learning that your young daughter has cancer—and turns it into a poignant but never melodramatic musing on parenting, love, and risks in this slim memoir that packs a mighty
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Elisha Cooper. Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-47083-4
Skillfully blending counting and matching elements into an animal-themed abecedary, Cooper invites readers to spot eight animals for each letter, nestled alongside other creatures whose names begin with the same letter. The G page is fairly packed...
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Elisha Cooper. Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-38495-7
Riding the rails from New York City to San Francisco takes on an expansive definition when Cooper (Farm) sounds the “All aboard,” bringing readers on five kinds of trains (commuter, passenger, freight, overnight, and high-speed). To move this...
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Elisha Cooper, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-15755-5
Cooper embarks on another distinctively American outing as he records the activities at a stadium from early on the morning of a baseball game to its close. Much like his Country Fair, the author strikes an informality of tone and look that is...
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Elisha Cooper, Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-85765-2
Only four words grace Cooper's (Beach) characteristically understated tale of a beaver whose log ride down the river becomes the first leg of a long urban journey—the log and beaver are soon loaded onto a truck and transported to a city lumberyard....
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Elisha Cooper, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-07075-1
Cooper (Beach
) creates a joyful tribute to family farms in this luminous and lyrical picture book. The text is stately, quiet, and poetic (“Morning chores would be better if they didn't happen every morning”), and the book slowly...
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Elisha Cooper, Author . Dial $16.99 (257p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3169-1
Cooper, known for his savvy picture books (Beach
; A Good Night Walk
) and his parenting memoir, Crawling
, trains his sights on teens with this perceptive documentary account of an academic year at Walter Payton High, a magnet school in Chicago (a...
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Elisha Cooper, Author . Pantheon $19.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-375-42455-7
In spite of all the fine children's books he'd written and illustrated (Magic Thinks Big
; Dance!
), Cooper always knew, deep down, that he didn't really like children "in person." Parents were worse. Parents were people who used
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Elisha Cooper, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-68785-0
Like Cooper's other picture books (Baseball
; Building
), this surfside exploration combines a prosaic text with loose, cartoon-like figures that detail the activities a careful observer can notice about a particular place. "Away to the...
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Elisha Cooper, Author, Elisha Cooper, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-15531-5
The sights, smells and tastes of a country fair take center stage in this fresh-as-homegrown-tomatoes small-format picture book. With an understated, image-laden text and an array of evocative watercolor-and-pencil spot illustrations, Cooper (A Year
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Elisha Cooper, Author, Elisha Cooper, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-16494-2
From deserted urban lot to finished structure, this brief, amply illustrated volume documents the process of constructing a three-story building. As in his earlier children's books (Country Fair and Ballpark), Cooper's latest sketchbook strikes his...
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Elisha Cooper. Greenwillow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-201248-7
With minimal text and evocative panoramas of a beach house that exude serenity and quiet pleasures, Cooper (Beaver Is Lost) focuses attention on the loving relationship between a family and their loyal dog. One by one, family members ask Homer to...
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Elisha Cooper, Author, Elisha Cooper, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-087428-5
Bear can't seem to get in the hibernating groove. Worse yet, he believes that all the non-hibernating animals are having more fun. "It's not fair," grouses Bear (such economical sentences typify the narrative). So the cub emerges...
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Elisha Cooper, Author, Elisha Cooper, Illustrator . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-058164-0
The affable title character of Cooper's (Dance!
) tale not only thinks big, he is
big. Sitting in the doorway of his owner's lakeside cottage, this sleepy, rotund feline "contemplates his next move," musing about what he might doR
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Elisha Cooper, Author, Elisha Cooper, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-029418-2
Cooper (Ballpark; Country Fair) again simply and effectively zeroes in on a pastime to which youngsters are likely to be favorably disposed. Here he ushers readers into the studio of a dance company, where a choreographer teaches a new dance to the...
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Elisha Cooper. Orchard, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-338-31226-3
Seen from a distance, a woman in a canoe waves goodbye to people on the shore and sets out on a journey: “Three hundred miles stretch in front of her.” She’s paddling the Hudson River from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Ocean. Sweeping pencil-and-wa
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Elisha Cooper. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-25733-8
An adorably over-the-top puppy and a fastidious black cat offer a study in contrasts in this sweetly comic interlude by Caldecott Honoree Cooper (Big Cat, Little Cat). An unseen narrator’s prompts guide the two throughout a day. “My dears, are you...
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Elisha Cooper. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-88476-3
Working in his signature boldly outlined figures and loose watercolor strokes, Caldecott Honoree Cooper introduces Emma, “a large dog with many small dreams.” She’s a thoughtful hound, and on the page around her, the smaller figures of similarly...
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