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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Mine!

Candace Fleming

Illustrator: Eric Rohmann

Ages: 5 & Under

Published: 2023

Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books/Random House Children's Books/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-593-18166-9

Keywords: Stories in rhyme, apples, forest animals

A number of animals covet a lone apple hanging at the “tip-tippy top" of a tree. When it falls, chaos ensues. Imaginative rhyme. Bold relief prints.