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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28 Days

by Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Illustrator: Shane W. Evans

Ages: 9+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-59643-820-0

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Diversity, Holidays, Read-Aloud, African Americans

Great African American men and women are praised in both poetry and prose. Striking mixed-media illustrations.