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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Life Electric, A: The Story of Nikola Tesla
Azadeh Westergaard
Illustrator: Júlia Sardà
Ages: 6+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Viking/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-11460-5
Keywords: inventors, electricity, rivalry, Thomas Edison, Chicago World's Fair
A creative boy, fascinated with electricity, grew up to invent the groundbreaking alternating current (AC) motor, but his prominence was short lived. Illustrations evoke late-1800s Europe and America.