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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Telephone of the Tree
Alison McGhee
Illustrator: Danah Kim
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Rocky Pond Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-69845-7
Keywords: Family/School/Community-Best friends, trees, loss, neighbors, preferred pronouns
Spare, striking language depicts the grief process of an 11-year-old girl as she moves from magical thinking to acceptance. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Delicate, greyscale spot art.