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
Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese-American Poet Kahlil Gibran
Cory McCarthy
Illustrator: Ekua Holmes
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-1-5362-0032-4
Keywords: Lebanese Americans, Poets, Immigration, Picture Book for Older Readers
As a child, Gibran found solace in art and poetry, helping him meld his Lebanese and new American identities together. Glorious collage and acrylic illustrations