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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Timeless Thomas

written and illustrated by Gene Barretta

Ages: 6+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Henry Holt/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-0-8050-9108-3

Keywords: Mathematics, Science, Technology, Inventions

Without Edison, who gave us the telegraph, the light bulb, cement, alkaline batteries, and much more, we would be in the dark. Watercolor illustrations.