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).

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Fairy Spell

by Marc Tyler Nobleman

Illustrator: Eliza Wheeler

Ages: 9+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Clarion Books/HMH

ISBN: 978-0-544-69948-9

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Read-Aloud, Hoaxes

In 1917, two girls and a camera duped a credulous public, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Archival photographs, watercolor and mixed-media illustrations. Back matter.