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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I'm Sure I Saw a Dinosaur
written by Jeanne Willis
Illustrator: Adrian Reynolds
Ages: 6+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Andersen Press
ISBN: 978-0-7613-8093-1
Keywords: imagination, dinosaurs - fiction, Read-Aloud
All the inhabitants of a seaside town run out to see a dinosaur. Does it really exist? Intensely colored paintings with funny details.