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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Digging for Words: Jose Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built
Angela Burke Kunkel
Illustrator: Paola Escobar
Ages: 6+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Random House/Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 978-1-984892-63-8
Keywords: Libraries, books and Reading, Bogota, Colombia
A garbage collector in Bogota scavenges books to create a library in his Barrio and is known as "The Lord of the Books." Whimsical digital art and background notes.