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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Built to Last

Minh LĂȘ

Illustrator: Dan Santat

Ages: 5 & Under

Published: 2024

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-593-56917-7

Keywords: Social-Emotional Learning-Imagination, friendship, cooperation, conflict, problem solving, social-emotional learning

Two boys collaborate on ever bigger construction projects, experiencing failure and success along the way. Reality and fantasy blend in bright colored pencil and watercolor art.