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).
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Butterfly Tree
by Sandra Markle
Illustrator: Leslie Wu
Ages: 6+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Peachtree
ISBN: 978-1-56145-539-3
Keywords: Migrations
A daughter and her mother follow an orange cloud from the beach into the woods and discover it is a mass of migrating monarch butterflies. Soft pastel illustrations.