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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Strange Mr. Satie
by M. T. Anderson
Illustrator: Petra Mathers
Ages: 9+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-0-7636-8775-5
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Composing, Music
In Paris at the turn of the last century, this irreverent composer wrote music that most people didn't understand. Fanciful watercolor illustrations capture his eccentric world.