We are in love with Elisha Cooper's children's books. This artist and author offers that rare and wonderful combination of poetic, lovely language with the most evocative and beautiful illustrations.
I love the detail in the watercolors and his stylized figures. I love Cooper's language, which is more prose poetry than narrative. He captures the rhythms and moments and sensory details of the day and location in such a peaceful and meditative way that you feel you could lose yourself in his world and never turn back. After reading Beach, Sabrina nearly always says wistfully, the way one does when they miss the water, I want to be at the beach.
Cooper also has written Crawling, a memoir of his first year of fatherhood. I think the book would make a perfect gift for a good + happy daddy. Make it even more perfect by adding one of Cooper's picture books for daddy to read to his child.
The images above are from Beach and A Good Night Walk, our favorite of Cooper's books. The images below are from Crawling and Country Fair.
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