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
Penny & Pip
Candace Fleming
Illustrator: Eric Rohmann
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2023
Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-6659-1331-7
Keywords: Dinosaur babies, children and dinosaurs, museums, class field trips, friendship, imagination
On a class field trip to the natural history museum, Penny, a brown-skinned child, meets Pip, a newly hatched dinosaur, and a beautiful friendship ensues. Imaginative pencil and digitally colored illustrations.