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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Spi-ku: A Clutter of Short Verse on Eight Legs
Leslie Bulion
Illustrator: Robert Meganck
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Peachtree
ISBN: 978-1-68263-192-8
Keywords: picture book for older readers, STEM
Short poems with detailed digital illustrations and descriptive passages, introduce us to spiders' hunting, mating, and offspring-rearing behaviors.