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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No Small Potatoes
by Tonya Bolden
Illustrator: Don Tate
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-385-75276-3
Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, African Americans, Farming, Diversity, Slavery
Groves, formerly enslaved, worked hard to buy his own potato farm, eventually becoming one of the richest men in Kansas. Painterly illustrations; back matter.