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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Colossal Words for Kids: 75 Tremendous Words— Neatly Defined to Stick in the Mind.
Colette Hiller
Illustrator: Tor Freeman
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books/The Quarto Group
ISBN: 978-0-7112 7875-2
Keywords: Concept Book-etymology, spelling, range of word levels,humor,
Selected vocabulary, defined in rhymed poems and peppered with wordplay and quotes from literary figures, challenges children to discover the richness of language. Colorful, whimsical illustrations.