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
Viewfinder
Christine D.U. Chung & Salwa Majoka
Illustrator: Christine D.U. Chung & Salwa Majoka
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Tundra Books/Penguin Random House of Canada
ISBN: 978-0-7352-6875-3
Keywords: Science Fiction-Action and adventure, Interplanetary voyages, Wordless pciture books
In this wordless story, a young space traveler explores Earth after an ecological catastrophe there and discovers a time capsule with a viewfinder showing scenes from the planet's past. Dreamlike digital painted artwork.