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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Sole Man, The: Jan Matzeliger's Lasting Invention
Shana Keller
Illustrator: Stephen Costanza
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 978-1-53411-300-8
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Inventor, Shoe making,
In the late 1800s, a bright and determined Black mechanic from South America arrived in the United States, and despite all odds, designed an intricate machine for making shoes. Colorful, stylized illustrations.