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).
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What Is Given from the Heart
by Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrator: April Harrison
Ages: 6+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-375-83615-2
Keywords: Social/Emotional Learning, Diversity, Compassion, Poverty, Fire (House), Children as artists, African Americans, Valentine's Day
Although James Otis, a young African American boy, has little to share, he makes a book for Sarah, whose house has burned down. Stylized mixed-media illustrations.