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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A Grain of Rice
written and illustrated by Helena Clare Pittman
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-1-5247-6552-1
Keywords: Read-Aloud, Diversity, Mathematics
A very smart but poor man tries to win the hand of a princess by using his math skills. An engaging tale set in China. Pencil drawings. Extensive afterword explains the math in the story.