
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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Lights! Camera! Alice!
by Mara Rockliff
Illustrator: Simona Ciraolo
Ages: 6+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1-4521-4134-3
Keywords: Pioneering women, Movies, Filmmakers, Screenwriters
In the late 19th century, innovative Alice Guy-Blaché became the first director of both a sound and narrative fiction film. Colorful dry-media illustrations, silent movie-style format. Back matter.