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.