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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How to Know a Crow: The Biography of a Brainy Bird

Candace Savage

Illustrator: Rachel Hudson

Ages: 9+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Greystone Kids/Greystone Books

ISBN: 978-1-77164-916-2

Keywords: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)-Life cycle, hatchling, predators, mating, nesting, taxonomy, anatomy, conservation

Among the smartest of the dinosaurs' descendants, corvids use tools, have complex social lives, protect one another, and even carry grudges. Graceful mixed-media illustrations. Varied activities. Glossary, resources.