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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How Sweet The Sound
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator: Frank Morrison
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-7206-7
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Music, Read-Aloud, Slavery, Biography
John Newton, a slave trader who became an English minister and an abolitionist, wrote a stirring and still inspiring hymn. Illustrated with bold oil paintings. Back matter.