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.
"I would have sooner been handed a bomb than a baby, admits Elisha Cooper, early in his charming chronicle of his first year as a father. But that, like everything else, is about to change. Luckily, Cooper recorded it all: from playing Outkast s So Fresh, So Clean as he changes his daughter's diaper, to having a romantic dinner at Chez Panisse with his wife--and baby. Cooper s disarmingly beautiful essays about the...
From an award-winning illustrator and children s book author comes a touching, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about parenting, love, and t...
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.
This is a poignant story, told in measured text and bold black-and-white illustrations about life and the act of moving on.
There was a cat who lived alone. Until the day a new cat came . . .
And so a story of friendship begins, following two cats throug...
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoe starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer and hot chocolate at the local cafe, inter-rupted by visits to the hospital. Elisha and his wife help their daughters maintain a sense of stability and joy in their family...
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-ye...