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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The Right Word
by Jen Bryant
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Eerdmans BFYR
ISBN: 978-0-8028-5385-1
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Lexographies, Read-Aloud, Language
Paul Roget loved making lists of the right words to express something. Eventually, his lists grew into a book called a thesaurus. Watercolor illustrations combined with vintage images throughout.