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Elisha Cooper

Biography

Elisha Cooper

Elisha Cooper is the author of many children’s books, including TRAIN, FARM, HOMER and 8: An Animal Alphabet. BEACH received a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal in 2006, and DANCE! was a 2001 New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He was awarded a Sendak Fellowship in 2016. Cooper’s books for adults include A YEAR IN NEW YORK and the memoirs CRAWLING: A Father’s First Year and FALLING: A Father, a Daughter, and a Journey Back. He lives with his family in New York City.

Elisha Cooper

Books by Elisha Cooper

by Elisha Cooper - Memoir, Nonfiction

Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, 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. In FALLING, Elisha writes about what it took for him and his wife to preserve a sense of normalcy and joy in their daughters' lives; how the family emerged from this experience profoundly changed; and how we are all transformed by the fear and hope we feel for those we love.