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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Of Salt and Shore
Annet Schaap
Illustrator: Annet Schaap
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 978-1-62354-230-6
Keywords: mermaid, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, pirates, fantasy
In an adventure filled with mermaids, pirates, and misfits, a lighthouse keeper's daughter faces terrors, and finds her true self. Atmospheric, full-spread black-and-white illustrations.