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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Welcome to America, Champ!
by Catherine Stier
Illustrator: Doris Ettlinger
Ages: 6+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 978-1-58536-606-4
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Emigration, World War II, Stepfathers
After his English mother marries an American G.I., Thomas is ambivalent about moving to America when the war ends in 1945. Atmospheric color illustrations.