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.

To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.

How to Perform a Search and Save a List

Jane Austen: Her Heart Did Whisper

written and illustrated by Manuela Santoni

Ages: 12+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Graphic Universe/Lerner

ISBN: 978-1-5415-2366-1

Keywords: Picture Books for older readers, English history, Graphic format, Writing

Bold black-and-white graphics depict how Austen gave up her first love, but not her love of writing. Back matter.