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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If I Could Drive, Mama
by Cari Best
Illustrator: Simone Shin
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2016
Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30205-4
Keywords: Imagination, mothers and sons, Read-Aloud, family life
ARC - Charlie, in his new cardboard box, drives his mother around town and making it an adventurous journey. Lively, colorful watercolors.