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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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Bear and the Wildcat, The
Kazumi Yumoto
Illustrator: Komako Sakai
Ages: 6+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Gecko Press/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-8774-6770-7
Keywords: grieving, mourning, friendship, SEL
Bear struggles with grief after his best friend's death, until a music-playing cat leads him gently back into the world. Charcoal art complements the text.