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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Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea
by Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Raúl Colón
Ages: 6+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster BFYR
ISBN: 978-1-4814-1600-9
Keywords: Oceanograph, Cartography, Picture book for older readers
Despite gender biases she faced as a woman, scientist Marie Tharp proved the hypothesis about continental drift. Colorful watercolors.