Library As Canvas: The Extraordinary Art of Elisha Cooper

The box came covered in cats:

The cats, one should note, are familiar ones. Anyone who has seen the Caldecott Honor winner Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper would instantly recognize their winnowy curves. But these cats were different. They decorated a box. A box for my library. A box full of wonderful things.

To go back a bit in time, I’m going to direct you to a blog post I did in 2012 called Art in the Children’s Room: Elisha Cooper Style. In it, I explained that Cooper is a resident o...