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We are delighted that celebrated author/illustrator, Elisha Cooper will be joining us for an afternoon of reading, discussion and signing.  Customers of the Clinton Book Shop have long treasured the magical world that Elisha creates through his picture books.  Just take a look at the list below and you too will be amazed at the crative talent of this man.

Elisha has two new books that will be featured, Farm, and Beaver Is Lost. 

About Farm:

There is so much to look at and learn about on a farm — animals, tractors, crops, barns — even a rooster named Breakfast! And children feeding animals for morning chores, which "would be better if they didn't happen in the morning." With lyrical writing and beautiful illustrations that capture the rhythms of the changing seasons, Elisha Cooper brings the farm to life.

Farm celebrates the small New England farm of Cooper's youth and is a beautiful companion to Beach, winner of the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. 

"Cooper creates a joyful tribute to family farms in this luminous and lyrical picture book. The text is stately, quiet, and poetic . . . and the book slowly takes readers through a year of planing, good and bad weather, and ordinary details about farm life." — Publisher's Weekly, starred review

About Beaver Is Lost: Oh, no—Beaver is lost! Will he ever find his way back home?

In this nearly wordless picture book by Elisha Cooper, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book award, a young beaver is accidentally separated from his family. Follow Beaver as he's chased by a dog, visits a zoo, and even finds himself in the middle of a busy city street.

In the vein of beloved classics like Flotsam and Good Night, Gorilla, this book is the perfect gift for future graphic novel enthusiasts. With luminous pencil-and-watercolor illustrations by an artist whose work the New York Times has called "simple and quiet and essentially perfect," Beaver Is Lost is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere.