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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Little Books of the Little Brontës, The
Sarah O'Leary
Illustrator: Briony May Smith
Ages: 6+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Tundra Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-7352-6369-7
Keywords: childhood, authors,creativity
Four young siblings loved stories and wrote their own match-box size books, and then grew up to be famous British authors. Painterly illustrations. Time line, author's note, sources.