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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Tomfoolery: Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books
Michelle Markel
Illustrator: Barbara McClintock
Ages: 6+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-0-8118-7923-1
Keywords: careers, creativity, fathers and sons, Victorian England,
In the 1870s an irrepressible Englishman's dynamic illustrations revolutionized the once-staid field of children's publishing. Exuberant pen and watercolor tableaux. Back matter includes time line and sources.