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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If You Had a Jetpack
by Lisl H. Detlefsen
Illustrator: Linzie Hunter
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2018
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-399-55329-5
Keywords: Positive message, Read-Aloud, Language, Travel, Imagination, Adverbs, Adventure
To cure their boredom, two determined creatures invent a unique form of transportation inspiring a trip around the world and into space. Lively digital images.