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/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Cold Snap
by Eileen Spinelli
Illustrator: Marjorie Priceman
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2012
Publisher: Knopf/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-375-85700-3
Keywords: Weather, Snow
A week of very cold weather in a small town brings out the best in everyone. What a relief when it's over! Lively gouache on watercolor paper illustrations.