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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We Wait For the Sun
Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe
Illustrator: Raissa Figueroa
Ages: 6+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Roaring Book Press
ISBN: 978-1-250-22902-1
Keywords: grandmother, blackberries, family, African Americans
Digital illustrations capture the love between Black army veteran, lawyer and activist Dovey Johnson Roundtree and her grandmother. Informative back matter extends the story.