Elisha Cooper

Elisha Cooper is an American writer and children's book author who graduated from Yale and then worked as a messenger for The New Yorker. His picture books include Train, Farm, Beach, and Dance!, which was a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated winner in 2001. He has also written the memoirs Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back and Crawling: A Father's First Year, and his picture book Big Cat, Little Cat was a Caldecott Honor book in 2018.