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/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Life on Surtsey (Scientists in the Field series)
by Loree Griffin Burns
Illustrator: Sarah Green
Ages: 9+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 978-0-54468723-3
Keywords: Iceland, Ecology, Geology
An Icelandic entomologist and his crew tirelessly follow the geological and ecological changes on an island formed by a 1963 volcanic eruption. Informative photographs. Extensive back matter.