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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It Began with a Page
by Kyo Maclear
Illustrator: Julie Morstad
Ages: 6+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-244762-3
Keywords: Diversity, Immigrants, Picture Books for Older Readers, Japanese Americans, Artists, Japanese American internment camps
A Japanese American artist breaks ground in children's book publishing illustrating babies of many colors. Watercolor, gouache, and pencil crayon sensitively depict her life.