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 Typewriter
written and illustrated by Bill Thomson
Ages: 6+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Two Lions/Amazon Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-4778-4975-0
Keywords: Imagination, Wordless Books, Diversity, Adventure
When three children find a mysterious typewriter, they discover the thrill of power, and the imagination needed to survive in this wordless book with dramatic, realistic, hand-painted pictures.