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
Billie B. Brown, The Bad Butterfly
by Sally Rippin
Illustrator: Aki Fukuoka
Ages: 6+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Kane/Miller/EDC
ISBN: 978-1-61067-095-1
Keywords: Transitional Book, Ballet, Friendship, Ballet lessons
Billie wants to be a delicate ballerina, but even practice doesn't make her perfect, until she and her friend Jack come up with a new plan. Black-and-white spot illustrations.