- The snowy day, Ezra Jack Keats
- The secret of the lost tunnel
- The seven silly eaters, written by Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Marla Frazee
- The queen's museum, and other fanciful tales, Frank R. Stockton ; with illustrations by Frederick Richardson
- The fire cat, story and pictures by Esther Averill
- The three musketeers, Alexandre Dumas ; adapted by Malvina G. Vogel ; illustrations by Pablo Marcos Studio
- Toot & Puddle, a present for Toot, by Holly Hobbie
- Hey, Al, story by Arthur Yorinks ; pictures by Richard Egielski
- Smoky night, written by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by David Diaz
- The jungle book, Rudyard Kipling ; illustrated by Michael Foreman
- The patchwork quilt, by Valerie Flournoy ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
- The riddle of the stone elephant, by Bruce Campbell
- Peekaboo kisses, Barney Saltzberg
- Little Ann and other poems, by Jane and Ann Taylor ; illustrated by Kate Greenaway
- Footprints in the snow, by Cynthia Benjamin ; illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers
- From canal boy to President, or, The boyhood and manhood of James A. Garfield, by Horatio Alger, Jr., author of Ragged Dick, Luck and pluck, Tattered Tom, etc. ; illustrated
- Sketches & scraps, by Laura E. Richards ; with pictures by Henry Richards