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Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
Our online Searchable Best Books List draws from the committee's annual Best Children's Books of the Year-beginning with the list of books published in 2000-with each featuring more than 600 high-quality titles for young readers.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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Pappy's Handkerchief
by Devin Scillian
Illustrator: Chris Ellison
Ages: 9+
Published: 2007
Publisher: Sleeping Bear
ISBN: 978-1-58536-316-2
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In 1889, Moses and his family leave Baltimore to join the many other African-American families making a stake in the Oklahoma land run. Painterly illustrations.