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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Remembering Vera
written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco
Ages: 6+
Published: 2017
Publisher: A Paula Wiseman Book/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-4227-5
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Coast Guard, Heroes, Dogs
The author tells the story of the stray dog she met in 1962 who performed heroic rescues with the coast guard. Emotion-filled ink and marker drawings.