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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.
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/.
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Behold the Octopus!
Suzanne Slade
Illustrator: Thomas Gonzalez
Ages: 6+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Peachtree Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-68263-312-0
Keywords: underseas exploration, mollusc, invertbrate, camouflage
What animal species has no bones and eight arms, lives in the ocean, varies in size from one inch to 30 feet, and can change color? Luminous photorealistic art. Back matter.