Cooper is the author of the memoirs Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back, ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School, and Crawling: A Father's First Year, and several sketchbooks.
Children's books include 8: An Animal Alphabet, Train,Farm, Homer, Beaver Is Lost, Ice Cream, Ballpark, Building, Dance!, Magic Thinks Big, A Good Night Walk, and Beach.
Dance! was a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated winner in 2001. Beach was a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal best illustrated book of the year in 2006. A New York Times Book Review said of Magic Thinks Big, "Elisha Cooper's watercolors, like his sentences, are simple and quiet and essentially perfect."[2] His book Big Cat, Little Cat was a Caldecott Honor book in 2018.[3]River won the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize in 2020.
He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
elisha, cooper, american, writer, children, book, author, cooper, went, foote, school, hopkins, school, connecticut, after, graduating, from, yale, worked, yorker, messenger, 2016, maurice, sendak, fellow, residency, program, illustrators, born, 1971, february. Elisha Cooper is an American writer and children s book author Cooper went to Foote School and Hopkins School in Connecticut After graduating from Yale he worked for The New Yorker as a messenger In 2016 he was a Maurice Sendak Fellow a residency program for illustrators 1 Elisha CooperBorn 1971 02 22 February 22 1971 age 53 OccupationWriter IllustratorNationalityAmericanGenreFiction Non fiction Children s literatureWebsitewww wbr elishacooper wbr com Cooper is the author of the memoirs Falling A Daughter a Father and a Journey Back ridiculous hilarious terrible cool A Year in an American High School and Crawling A Father s First Year and several sketchbooks Children s books include 8 An Animal Alphabet Train Farm Homer Beaver Is Lost Ice Cream Ballpark Building Dance Magic Thinks Big A Good Night Walk and Beach Dance was a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated winner in 2001 Beach was a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal best illustrated book of the year in 2006 A New York Times Book Review said of Magic Thinks Big Elisha Cooper s watercolors like his sentences are simple and quiet and essentially perfect 2 His book Big Cat Little Cat was a Caldecott Honor book in 2018 3 River won the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize in 2020 He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters Contents 1 Bibliography 1 1 Books 2 References 3 External linksBibliography editBooks edit Non fiction A Year in New York 1995 Off the Road An American Sketchbook 1996 A Day At Yale 1998 California A Sketchbook 2000 Crawling A Father s First Year 2006 ridiculous hilarious terrible cool A Year in an American High School 2008 Falling A Daughter a Father and a Journey Back 2016 Picture Books Country Fair 1997 1998 Charlotte Zolotow Award Commendation 4 Ballpark 1998 Building 1999 Henry A Dog s Life 1999 Dance 2001 New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year 2001 Ice Cream 2002 Magic Thinks Big 2004 A Good Night Walk 2005 Bear Dreams 2006 Beach 2006 Beaver Is Lost 2010 Farm 2010 Homer 2012 Train 2013 8 An Animal Alphabet 2015 2016 Mathical Book Prize 5 Big Cat Little Cat 2017 2018 Caldecott Honor 3 2018 Charlotte Zolotow Award Commendation 4 River 2019 Yes amp No 2021References edit The Sendak Fellowship amp Workshop Maurice Sendak Foundation Retrieved 2 October 2018 Ferrara D Fat and Happy The New York Times Book Review June 27 2004 Accessed February 28 2008 a b 2018 Caldecott Medal Winner amp Honorees Brilliant Books 2018 02 12 Retrieved 2024 01 24 a b Schliesman Megan Charlotte Zolotow Award Books Cooperative Children s Book Center Archived from the original on 2018 10 28 Retrieved 2018 10 02 8 An Animal Alphabet Mathical Book Prize Retrieved 2021 06 07 External links editOfficial Website at elishacooper com Elisha Cooper at Scholastic Books Elisha Cooper at AuthorTracker Elisha Cooper biography on Answers com nbsp Children s literature portal Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elisha Cooper amp oldid 1211637595, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
