Children’s Book Committee
The Children’s Book Committee (CBC) was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming. Every year it produces comprehensive annotated book lists for children aged infant through 18.
Our Mission
The CBC reviews over 6000 titles each year for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. It chooses the best 600 books, both fiction and nonfiction, which it lists with annotations according to age and category.
The Children’s Book Committee strives to guide librarians, educators, parents, grandparents, and other interested adults to the best books for children published each year. The list includes more than 600 titles chosen by reviewers for literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.
To contact us, please email bookcom@bankstreet.edu.
Children's Book Committee June Pick
Sick with fever, a boy magically shrinks and aids a mouse family’s important quest. But is it all a dream? Warm, richly detailed illustrations scribbled in multi-colored ballpoint pen.
Our Young Reviewer Says:
It’s special. I love this book. I love this book, Dada, I love it, I love it, I love it. I love this book, I love it! I liked that they didn’t get eaten by the owl. He’s turning into a size a cricket. When he’s an old man, he has the coin. But it wasn’t a long time ago. He’s not a man yet a long time ago. This happened really a long time ago in the book.
–Julian, age 4, Brooklyn, NY