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.
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In the Garden with Dr. Carver
by Susan Grigsby
Illustrator: Nicole Tadgell
Ages: 6+
Published: 2010
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN: 978-0-8075-3630-8
Keywords: Botany, agriculture
When George Washington Carver brings his “movable school” to Sally's Alabama town, she learns that when you “listen to the plants, they'll tell you what they need.”