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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While You Are Sleeping

written and illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson

Ages: 5 & Under

Published: 2018

Publisher: Chronicle Books

ISBN: 978-1-4521-6599-8

Keywords: Wordless books, City life, Dreams

As a boy sleeps, brilliantly-hued collage images, realistic and fantastic, are depicted outside his window and in his dreams. Adult questioning can help elicit the stories.