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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Yaya and the Sea
Karen Good Marable
Illustrator: Tonya Engel
Ages: 5 & Under
Published: 2024
Publisher: Denene Miller Books/Simon & Schuster BFYR/S & S
ISBN: 978-1-5344-6201-4
Keywords: 5--Gifts, tributes, inspiration, mothers and daughters, womanhood, New York
On the first day of spring, a Black girl watches her mother and beloved aunties give ritual offerings to the ocean. Radiant acrylic and oil paintings. Author's note.