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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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Wallace and Grace Take the Case
by Heather Alexander
Illustrator: Laura Zarrin
Ages: 6+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 978-1-61963-988-1
Keywords: Mystery, Humor, Making inferences, Friendship, Read-aloud
Two owls are food friends and good detectives. Lots of clues, lots of humor, and illustrations created with Blackwing pencils and Photoshop help young readers figure things out. [list with Wallace and Grace and the Cupcake Caper]