Elisha Cooper

• Mar-2026
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Caldecott Honoree Elisha Cooper returns with a unique and playful tale about an imaginative house cat who dreams of all the wild things it can be.The imagination of one housecat takes him to unexpected adventures as he dreams of spreading his wings a...

• Apr-2025
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A love letter to books, showing how many elements and people contribute to making something beautiful, from Caldecott honoree Elisha CooperMultiple starred reviews: "An immediate classic."*  /  "Special...bringing the parts of the book toge...

• Apr-2024
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Emma is a big dog with a lot of little dreams.She dreams of a cool roll in the grass, a warm spring walk, and food, of course.Every day her dreams get bigger, and bigger, until one day...they all come true!A beautiful classic-in-the-making, Caldecott...

• Apr-2021
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Good morning, good morning. It's time to wake up! Join a cat and puppy pair through their day-the ups of being fed and romping through grass, and the downs of days that are too short and things that don't go as planned-as they realize that...

• Oct-2019
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Caldecott Honor winner Elisha Cooper invites readers to grab their oars and board a canoe down a river exploration filled with adventure and beauty.In Cooper's flowing prose and stunning watercolor scenes, readers can follow a traveler's trek down th...

• Mar-2017
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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. "Big Cat, Litt...

• Jun-2016
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Elisha Cooper spends his morn�ings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery...

• Aug-2015
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Explore the animal world, from aardvark to zebu! Discover hundreds of animals, great and small. Lion and lizard, whale and wombat. Learn one wild fact about each animal. (Did you know that gorillas yawn when they are nervous?) Look carefully, beca...

• Sep-2013
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A night train, a freight train, a high-speed train. Racing across the country, from coast to coast. All aboard! Climb aboard a red-striped Commuter Train in the East. Switch to a blue Passenger Train rolling through midwestern farmland. Then hop o...

• Jun-2012
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Home isn't just where the heart is. Home is often where the dog is. And for this loyal dog -- who you will recognize if you have ever loved a dog -- home is where you are. ...

• Jun-2010
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Oh, no -- Beaver is lost! Will he ever find his way back home? In this nearly wordless picture book by Elisha Cooper, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book award, a young beaver is accidentally separated from his family. Foll...

• Apr-2010
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Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal recipient, Elisha Cooper, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. There is so much to look at and learn about on a farm - animals, tractors, crops, and barns. And children feed...

• Mar-2008
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With true stories about classes, extra-curricular activities, romances, and more, this comprehensive collection presents a realistic look at what it is like to enjoy, cope, and survive high school and its many dramas.Elisha Cooper spent a year hangin...

• Oct-2006
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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."Hilarious and beautiful.... A new father finally understands what it's all abou...

• Sep-2006
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One autumn afternoon a bear cub disobeys his mother and his father and goes outside to play with his friends.

This bear cub, you see, does not want to go to sleep for the winter, or even for one minute. This bear cub has big ideas and big ...

• Jun-2006
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Award-winning author Elisha Cooper uses his renowned soft yet lively watercolors to celebrate the cherished act of visiting the beach. "Away to the beach Away to sand and salt water, to rolling dunes and pounding waves." A day at the beach supplies ...

• Sep-2005
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Acclaimed author-illustrator Elisha Cooper paints the quiet magic of a good-night walk as the neighborhood settles into itself at the end of the day.

As a child and parent walk down the block to the bay and turn to walk back home, evening fall...

• Mar-2004
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Magic the cat isvery large, very round, and unable to make up his mind.

Magic the cat issort of silly,sort of sleepy, andstuck in one spot.

Look!Magic the catmay not be moving,but his imaginationhas taken flight.

• Apr-1999
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It begins with an empty city lot and ends with a gleaming new building. But what happens in between? With his trademark sketch pad, watercolors, and sharp eye for atmosphere and detail, Elisha Cooper takes note of what goes on at a construction site ...

• Mar-1998
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If you think a ball game at a stadium is simply a matter of nine innings and a hot dog, you are in for a surprise. Come and join the players, coaches, vendors, reporters, umpires, groundskeepers, and fans, and find out what really happens before--and...

• Aug-1997
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Nothing looks or sounds or smells like a good, old-fashioned country fair--and this one is no exception. There are tall canvas tents and a whirling Ferris wheel. There are pigs and cows and horses and rabbits. Sheep are being sheared and teams of oxe...