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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Flashlight
written and illustrated by Lizi Boyd
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2014
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1-4521-1894-9
Keywords: Wordless books
Wonders of the dark unfold as a boy lights up various plants and animals and then becomes the subject of the beams himself. A wordless book illuminated by a black background which highlights gray-blue figures.