Cooper creates a joyful tribute to family farms in this luminous and lyrical picture book.
— Publisher's Weekly ★ Review

— Publisher's Weekly, Q & A with Elisha Cooper

It’s as thorough and pleasing an introduction to a farm as one could ask of a picture book.
— Horn Book ★ Review

It’s the best farm book, the best realistic farm book, I have ever read for kids.
— School Library Journal, A Fuze #8 Production, Elizabeth Bird

It’s a neat, circular adventure, well paced and easy to follow in the panels, one that will have pre-readers eager to make the trip again and again.
— The Horn Book

Stunning in their simplicity, these pictures speak a thousand words.
— Kirkus ★ Review

Elisha Cooper’s lovely, sophisticated watercolors create a day at the beach, dawn to dusk… Beach is a visual lesson in the powers of observation. It’s as good as a day at the beach—without the messy sand.
— USA Today

It’s hard to imagine a book more evocative of summer than this one. Cooper’s watercolor and pencil illustrations beautifully contain in a few strokes the essence of sky, deep-blue sea and sand, while other pages are dotted with life studies: bathers, kite-fliers, people doing nothing much at all.
— New York Times

Hilarious and beautiful… a new father finally understands what it’s all about.
— Chicago Tribune

A bravely honest memoir of parenthood.
— New York Times

With a delicious sense of humor and remarkably graceful phrasing, Cooper’s journal is a gift to all new parents…
— Publisher's Weekly

A lovely choice.
— School Library Journal

The clear, unfussy compositions echo the poetic words’ soothing, elemental sounds—reminiscent of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon—which beautifully capture the soft, slow-down rhythms of dusk.
— Booklist ★ Review

Magic is the ultimate cat.
— Kirkus ★ Review

It’s just about the loveliness and mystery of a fat, happy cat. Elisha Cooper’s watercolors, like his sentences, are simple and quiet and essentially perfect.
— New York Times

As much as New Yorkers love their hometown, sometimes a newcomer, flush with fresh ardor, can create a better Valentine to the city. A Year in New York, illustrated and written by Elisha Cooper, is just such a love letter.
— Time Out

Cooper, known for his savvy picture books… trains his sights on teens with this perceptive documentary account… the considerable strengths of the work come from Cooper’s genius for observation and confident refusal to dramatize what he finds.
— Publishers Weekly ★ Review

At one time or another most of us have wished we could be a fly on the wall – a silent, virtually invisible observer to worlds we normally have no access to. This is the role author Elisha Cooper plays in his wonder of a book…
— Chicago Sun-Times

Cooper captures the indignation of a youngster who does not want to go to bed, especially when friends are allowed to stay up later.
— School Library Journal

A charming bedtime tale for young ones.
— Kirkus

Cooper’s deliciously diverting book tackles a subject of intrinsic appeal to kids.  The author gives the scoop on ice-cream making and anticipates all of their questions, answering them with, well, good humor…
— Publishers Weekly ★ Review

Throughout, the text is crystal clear, all facts summoned up and then tweaked with personality.  A real person with a wry sense of humor shaped this information into a good story.
— New York Times

★ ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF 2001

— New York Times

Dance!, written and illustrated by Elisha Cooper, is a thoroughly contemporary look at a modern dance company at work…Physicality and the dedication of individuals to a company are cheerfully conveyed.
— New York Times

Few illustrators, save perhaps James Stevenson, can coax quite so much expression and animation from a few dashes of fine brushwork and a smear or two of watercolor fill…
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books ★ Review

Cooper’s latest sketchbook strikes his signature pleasing balance between the factual and the whimsical . . . Smoothly planting technical terms and techniques alongside a layperson’s detailed observations, Cooper constructs a cheerful tribute to a significant accomplishment.
— Publishers Weekly

A second picture book from Cooper, cataloging the timeless pleasures of baseball . . . children will be engaged for the full nine innings.
— Kirkus

Baseball may be a nine-inning game to you, but to the ballpark it’s also a red tractor mowing the outfield grass, a forklift moving boxes of peanuts, a dryer spitting out hot uniforms and a furry animal running out on the field.  Mr. Cooper catches it all here in whimsical watercolors.
— New York Times

Cooper’s first children’s book creates a quirky, engaging look at the sights, sounds, and scents of a country fair . . . Pies are judged, corn is shucked, a blue ribbon gets eaten by the winning cow, and then everything gets cleaned up . . . For city children, for country children — fun.
— Kirkus ★ Review

Using watercolors and simple drawings, Cooper chronicles his 50-day adventure with wit and whimsy.
— USA Today

Enter the sweet, meandering counter-voice of 25-year-old Cooper in this, his second book of sketches and observations . . . A-
— Entertainment Weekly