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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Alvin Ho: Allergic To the Great Wall, the Forbidden Palace, and Other Tourist Attractions
by Lenore Look
Illustrator: LeUyen Pham
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-385-36972-5
Keywords: China, Fears, Family
Alvin is back! This time he is on a family trip to China to visit relatives. Will he survive the plane trip and other scary adventures? Lively black-and-white illustrations.