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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In Praise of Mystery
Ada Limón
Illustrator: Peter Sís
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Norton Young Readers/W. W. Norton
ISBN: 978-1-324-05400-9
Keywords: Poetry-Space, earth, universe, life, humanity
These verses, chosen to be engraved on a NASA space probe, are a paean to the human spirit and its sublime connection to the wonders of nature. Rich, whimsical art.