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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How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures in It (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers series)
Jennifer Berne
Illustrator: Amanda Hall
Ages: 6+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Eerdmans BFYR/Eerdmans
ISBN: 978-0-8028-5478-0
Keywords: poetry, evolution,
How did life begin on Earth? Dramatic, sweeping illustrations capture single-celled creatures, invertebrates, arthropods, and finally, fish. Told in rhyming verse. Sources, glossary, time line.