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.
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."Ferrara, D: "Fat and Happy", The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 2004. Accessed February 28, 2008. His book Big Cat, Little Cat was a Caldecott Honor book in 2018. River won the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize in 2020.
He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Bibliography
Books 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 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 Big Cat, Little Cat, 2017; 2018 Caldecott Honor, 2018 Charlotte Zolotow Award Commendation River, 2019 Yes & No, 2021
References
External links Official Website at elishacooper.com Elisha Cooper at Scholastic Books Elisha Cooper at AuthorTracker Elisha Cooper biography on Answers.com