Here Is a Book: A Picture Book

(Hardback)

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A love letter to books, showing how many elements and people contribute to making something beautiful, from Caldecott honoree Elisha Cooper

An artists studio overflows with sketches, drafts, a wastebasket, and wonder.
A publishers office hums with computers, layouts, coffee, and teamwork.
A printer makes a layout into a book using presses, ink, paper, and time.
And that book travels to a school, to a library, to a student, to a home.

In this poetic and beautifully illustrated ode to creativity and the process of making books, Caldecott honoree Elisha Cooper takes readers on a journey showing how words and art move from one person to another. From writer to reader, and everyone who contributes in between: Here is a book, made with love.

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***STARRED REVIEW***
"[A] winningly granular work...Its a step-by-step representation of how a book comes into being, focused on how much depends on teamwork, time, beauty, adventure, grit, inspiration, curiosity, action, structure, humor, wonder, and love. * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Elisha Cooper is an author/illustrator who received a Caldecott Honor for Big Cat, Little Cat, and his following book River won the 2020 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. Dance!, one of his earlier books, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book of the Year, and Beach won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. In 2016, he was awarded a Sendak Fellowship. His essays and sketchbooks have appeared in the sports section of the New York Times. Cooper lives with his wife, daughters, and cats in New York City.