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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You Hold Me Up
by `Monique Gray Smith
Illustrator: Danielle Daniel
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2017
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-4598-1447-9
Keywords: Diversity, Support, Read-Aloud, Friendship
A celebration of all the ways people help, affirm, and support each other. Simple but effective gouache, acrylic, and pencil illustrations.