Cari Best
Author · 22 books
Cari Best has written many award-winning picture books, including Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and My Three Best Friends and Me, described by the New York Times as “refreshing” and “exciting.” Her most recent picture book is If I Could Drive, Mama, was described by Publishers Weekly as “a wonderful tribute to an imagination in perpetual motion.” In the Country of Queens is her first novel. Ms. Best lives in Connecticut.
Series
Books
Ava and the Real Lucille
2012
Getting Used to Harry
1996
Shrinking Violet
2001
In the Country of Queens
2017
I'm Brave! I'm Strong! I'm Five!
2019
Mabel Beecher
Future Teacher
2018
Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me
1995
What's So Bad About Being an Only Child?
2007
Knuffle Bunny and Other Stories About Families
2008
Are You Going to Be Good?
2005
Knuffle Bunny and Other Stories About Families
2008
If I Could Drive, Mama
2016
Bug Off!
A Story of Fireflies and Friendship
2019
Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!
1999
Beatrice Spells Some Lulus and Learns to Write a Letter
2013
When We Go Walking
2013
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
2015
When Catherine the Great and I Were Eight!
2003
Goose's Story
2002
A Perfect Day for Digging
2014
Easy as Pie
2010
Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
2006
