From an award-winning illustrator and children s book author comes a touching, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about parenting, love, and the wonder of new life.
"I would have sooner been handed a bomb than a baby, admits Elisha Cooper, early in his charming chronicle of his first year as a father. But that, like everything else, is about to change. Luckily, Cooper recorded it all: from playing Outkast s So Fresh, So Clean as he changes his daughter's diaper, to having a romantic dinner at Chez Panisse with his wife--and baby. Cooper s disarmingly beautiful essays about the...
From an award-winning illustrator and children s book author comes a touching, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about parenting, love, and t...
Cooper, the recipient of the Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. With lyrical writing and beautiful illustrations that capture the rhythms of the changing seasons, Cooper brings the farm to life. Full color.
Cooper, the recipient of the Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. With lyri...
There was a cat who lived alone. Until the day a new cat came . . .
And so a story of friendship begins, following two cats through their days, months, and years until one day, the older cat has to go. And he doesn't come back.
This is a poignant story, told in measured text and bold black-and-white illustrations about life and the act of moving on.
There was a cat who lived alone. Until the day a new cat came . . .
And so a story of friendship begins, following two cats throug...
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoe starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer and hot chocolate at the local cafe, inter-rupted by visits to the hospital. Elisha and his wife help their daughters maintain a sense of stability and joy in their family...
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-ye...
