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 House that Jane Built
by Tanya Lee Stone
Illustrator: Kathryn Brown
Ages: 9+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9049-9
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers
Opened in Chicago by Jane Addams in 1889, Hull House grew by 1907 to a thirteen-building complex providing services and opportunities to poor immigrant families. Gentle watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations. Bibliography and author's note.