Here Is a Book: A Picture Book by sales-abramsbooks

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For Mia & Zoë

The illustrations in this book were created with Winsor & Newton watercolors and Faber-Castell 5B pencils.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4197-6675-6

eISBN 978-1-64700-936-6

Book design by Pamela Notarantonio and Elisha Cooper

Editor: Emma Ledbetter

Associate Editor: Sara Sproull

Art Director: Pamela Notarantonio

Senior Managing Editor: Marie Oishi

Production Director: Alison Gervais

Published in 2025 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.

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Abrams Books for Young Readers are available at special discounts when purchased in quantity for premiums and promotions as well as fundraising or educational use. Special editions can also be created to specification. For details, contact specialsales@abramsbooks.com or the address below.

ELISHA COOPER

Abrams Books for Young Readers

New York

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Here is an artist, looking.

And look, here is the artist’s garden

made with sun, rain, dirt,

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shovels, seeds, and love.

And here is the artist’s home built with wood, hammers, paint, brushes, a shingled roof, and care,

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and her kitchen filled with an oven, bread,

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raspberry jam, family, a cat, and warmth.

Over here is the artist’s studio overflowing with paper, pencils, watercolors, brushes, sketches, drafts, a wastebasket,

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a light, a desk, a chair, music, tea, days, nights, art, and wonder.

And there is the artist carrying her art across a field swirling with wind,

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wildflowers, bees, swallows, and color,

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down a road and into a town bustling with boats,

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bakeries, neighbors, dogs, seagulls, and rhythm,

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where she delivers the art to her publisher’s office humming with editors, designers,

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assistants, computers, layouts, coffee, and teamwork. This is an advance, uncorrected proof. Not for resale, duplication, or reposting. Please do not quote without comparison to the finished book.

The publisher sends the layouts to a printer who turns them into books

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using paper, ink, printing presses, binding machines, glue, thread, and time.

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Then the books are trucked over hills and valleys layered with fog,

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forests, rocks, bears, and beauty,

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across a country and a coast ribboned with rivers,

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trains, clouds, roads, and adventure,

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and into a city soaring with steel, glass, skyscrapers, bridges,

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subways, buses, theaters, parks, smokestacks, factories, and grit,

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where the books are delivered to a school ringing with voices, bells, teachers, students, and inspiration,

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and its library packed with books, shelves,

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readers, and curiosity.

And here is one student carrying her books down a street bustling with bodegas,

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shops, neighbors, dogs, pigeons, and action,

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to her home built with bricks, mortar, wooden floors, a roof, and structure,

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and her kitchen filled with a stove, vegetable soup, family, two cats, and humor,

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and at last to her room overflowing with paper, pencils, a desk, a chair, stuffed bears,

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hot chocolate, days, nights, art, and wonder.

Here is a book. Look. It is made with care, warmth, color, rhythm, teamwork, time,

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beauty, adventure, grit, inspiration, curiosity, action, structure, humor, wonder, and love.

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Here is a book, made with love.

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