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/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Fire Flight: A Wildfire Escape
Cedar Pruitt
Illustrator: Chiara Fedele
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Capstone Editions/Capstone
ISBN: 978-1-68446-886-7
Keywords: Ecology-wildfire, flames, buckets, connection, pilot, fire fighting, fellow flyer, camouflages, fear, danger
Lyrical text tells the story of a screech owl seeking safety in a helicopter during the 2020 California Creek forest fire. Dramatic illustrations. Back matter.