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In-Store: Indie Bookstore Day Storytime with Elisha Cooper: Here Is a Book

Published: April 20, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

When: April 26, 2025
Where: Books Are Magic Smith

Address: 225 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States

Phone: +1 718-246-2665

Web: https://www.booksaremagic.net/

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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.

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: Here is a book, made with love.

An artist’s studio overflows with sketches, drafts, a wastebasket, and wonder.
A publisher’s 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.

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 Children’s 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.

Time: 11:30 am — 12:00 pm EST

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