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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Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Illustrator: Daniel Minter
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-9848-9436-6
Keywords: pigments, dyes and dyeing, color
Explore the significance of the color blue, from its uses in ancient times to recent advances in dye making. Lush acrylic wash illustrations. Free verse with word play. Back matter.