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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Rules of Summer

written and illustrated by Shaun Tan

Ages: 9+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic

ISBN: 978-0-545-63912-5

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Siblings, Friendship, Summer

A younger boy learns to navigate summer based on an older boy's humorous, arbitrary rules. Majestic, sometimes scary illustrations.