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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Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
Lea Lyon and Alexandria LaFaye
Illustrator: Jessica Gibson
Ages: 6+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-288878-5
Keywords: Ballet; African Americans; Discrimination
An African American girl, denied admittance to ballet school, teaches herself to dance using books from the bookmobile. Lively digitized illustrations and back matter.