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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I Hear a Pickle (and Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!)
written and illustrated by Rachel Isadora
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2016
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-399-16049-3
Keywords: Senses, Diversity
A diverse array of appealing children explore the five senses and experience food, flowers, rain, sneakers and stars. Delicate ink-and-watercolor illustrations.