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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Child of the Universe
Ray Jayawardhana
Illustrator: Raul Colón
Ages: 6+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Random House/Make Me a World
ISBN: 978-1-5247-1754-4
Keywords: parental love, bedtime story, science-Astronomy
A father compares his daughter to the elements of the cosmos, as she prepares for bed. Intense and spectacular colored pencil illustrations.