Best in Children’s Books – List of Contents
A searchable, sortable list of all the stories, authors and illustrators in the Best of Children’s Books series. Enjoy!
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire | Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire | 1:1-39 |
| Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi, abridged by Alfred Van Der Marck | Roberta MacDonald | 32:1-53 |
| Aesop's Fables | Mary MacNab editor | Tony Palazzo | 2:1-36 |
| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | Andrew Lang | Aldren Watson | 5:1-36 |
| Alfred the Saxon King | Smith Burnham | Feodor Rojankovsky | 32:74-83 |
| Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 23:1-37 |
| Amazing Animals of Australia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 35:156-160 |
| America's Glorious Past | - no author listed - | Edward Shenton and Alice Smith | 35:1-35 |
| America's Lake and River Fish | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 12:117-124 |
| America's Wonderful National Parks | Gladys Schwarcz | Leonard Weisgard | 34:22-45 |
| American Folk Rhymes and Chants | - no author listed - | Adrienne Adams | 20:58-63 |
| Andrew Jackson, Pioneer Hero | Smith Burnham | Ray Houlihan | 33:71-84 |
| Androcles and the Lion | - no author listed - | Don Freeman | 11:77-84 |
| Andy and Polly | Rhea Wells | Phyllis Rowand | 13:95-106 |
| Angus and the Cat | Marjorie Flack | Marjorie Flack | 1:125-134 |
| Angus and the Ducks | Marjorie Flack | Marjorie Flack and Leonard Kessler | 18:65-76 |
| Animal Children | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 1:117-124 |
| Animal Crackers and Other Poems | Christopher Morley | Barbara Cooney | 21:45-57 |
| Animal Tracks | Robert S. Lemmon | Edward Shenton | 24:125-146 |
| Animals of Africa | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 10:117-124 |
| Apples' New House | Jean McDevitt | Ninon | 11:125-155 |
| Away Goes Jonathan Wheeler | Marjorie Flack | Richard Scarry | 20:96-101 |
| Azor | Maude Crowley | Robert MacLean | 22:125-150 |
| Babar the King | Jean de Brunhoff | Jean de Brunhoff | 20:1-44 |
| Baby Bear | Hamilton Williamson | Feodor Rojankovsky | 9:37-44 |
| Baby’s Mother Goose | - no author listed - | Ruth Ives | 42:77-84 |
| Baker's Daughter | Margery Williams Bianco | Lawrence Beall Smith | 26:144-155 |
| Barbara Frietchie | John Greenleaf Whittier | Ruth Ives | 25:37-43 |
| Be a Magician | Sue and Bill Severn | Susan Perls | 18:125-146 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Hamilton Wright Mabie | Colleen Browning | 18:4-36 |
| Beezus and her Imagination | Beverly Cleary | Mircea Vasiliu | 35:134-155 |
| Bell of Atri retold | James Baldwin | Mario Micossi | 37:146-155 |
| Benjamin Franklin | James Baldwin | Tom O'Sullivan | 3:125-156 |
| Best Birthday | Quail Hawkins | Don Freeman | 16:125-155 |
| Best Loved Singing Games | - no author listed - | Polly Jackson | 2:85-100 |
| Betsy, Tacy, and Tib Are Ten | Maud Hart Lovelace | Ninon | 32:54-73 |
| Big Brother | Laura Bannon | Richard Scarry | 25:102-116 |
| Big Red Bus | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | 38:46-58 |
| Billy and the Bear | Laura Bannon | Phoebe Erickson | 13:45-76 |
| Birds Build Their Homes | Sabra Mallett Kimball | Addison Webb | 5:117-140 |
| Birds of the South Pacific | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 9:117-124 |
| Black Beauty and Ginger | Anna Sewell | Phoebe Erickson | 39:1-36 |
| Bluebonnets for Lucinda | Frances Clark Sayers | Polly Jackson | 19:45-62 |
| Bob and the Railroad | Sanford Tousey | Ray Houlihan | 21:85-116 |
| Books of Nah-wee | Grace and Carl Moon | Paul Lantz | 9:125-155 |
| Boston Bells | Elizabeth Coatsworth | Manning de V. Lee | 24:45-76 |
| Bottles, Bottle Tops, and Soda Pop | Mary Elting | Paul Galdone | 20:64-75 |
| Boy King Arthur | Mary MacLeod | Henry C. Pitz | 9:1-36 |
| Bremen Town Musicians | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Edy Legrand | 37:77-84 |
| Buffalo Bill | William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody | Ray Houlihan | 42:1-36 |
| Butterflies and Moths of North America | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 17:117-124 |
| Calico Pie | Edward Lear | Edward Lear | 38:112-116 |
| Capital Ship | Charles Edward Carryl | Robin Jacques | 34:76-84 |
| Card Games Are Fun | Alfred Sheinwold | Andy Warhol | 27:96-116 |
| Cat that Walked by Himself | Rudyard Kipling | Paul Galdone | 24:1-18 |
| Chi-wee's White Boots | Grace Moon | Doris Rosenthal | 33:125-140 |
| Chicken-Little | - no author listed - | Leonard Weisgard | 3:77-84 |
| Chief Dooley's Busy Day | Harry and Kay Mace | Richard Scarry | 36:125-139 |
| Child's Garden of Verses | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ruth Ives | 1:45-60 |
| Child's World in ABC | Mary Warner Eaton | Charlotte Steiner | 6:85-108 |
| Childhood Poems | - no author listed - | Barbara Cooney | 37:19-34 |
| Chinky, the Banker Pony | Sanford Tousey | Robert MacLean | 32:125-155 |
| Chips, the Story of a Cocker Spaniel | Connie Moran and Diana Thorne | Phoebe Erickson | 31:67-76 |
| Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Everett Shinn | 4:1-64 |
| Christmas Every Day | William Dean Howells | Elizabeth Enright | 28:46-62 |
| Christmas in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Garth Williams | 28:1-33 |
| Cinderella | Charles Perrault | Susanne Suba | 8:60-76 |
| City Boy, Country Boy | Miriam Schlein | Leonard Kessler | 18:106-116 |
| Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield | Smith Burnham | Polly Jackson | 27:84-95 |
| Connemara Donkey | Eleanor Farjeon | Hildegarde Woodward | 38:85-111 |
| Copley Family | John S. Copley | illustrated with photos | 24:77 |
| Cornelia's Jewels | James Baldwin | Don Freeman | 31:125-129 |
| Cow Who Fell in the Canal | Phyllis Krasilovsky | Peter Spier | 39:76-85 |
| Crossing the Rubicon | James Baldwin | Ray Houlihan | 38:150-155 |
| Crunch Crunch | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | 30:125-139 |
| Dangerous Day for Mrs. Doodlepunk | Dorothy Dodworth | Jill Elgin | 34:125-140 |
| Daniel Boone | Smith Burnham | Edward Shenton | 5:105-116 |
| Daniel in the Lions' Den | Fulton Oursler and April Oursler Armstrong | Aldren A. Watson | 17:125-155 |
| David and Goliath | April Oursler Armstrong | Jules Gotlieb | 4:85-99 |
| Dick and the Canal Boat | Sanford Tousey | Edward Shenton | 8:125-156 |
| Dick Whittington and His Cat | ames Baldwin | Peter Spier | 6:141-156 |
| Dime's Worth for Free | Marion Holland | Richard Scarry | 33:141-155 |
| Discovering the Unknown World | 33:28-35 | ||
| Doctor Raggedy Andy | Johnny Gruelle | Johnny Gruelle | 7:77-84 |
| Dog Friends | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 3:117-124 |
| Doll in the Grass | - no author listed - | Lawrence Beall Smith | 42:37-44 |
| Drakesbill | James Baldwin | Paul Galdone | 17:85-99 |
| Dutch Boy and the Dike | Sara Cone Bryant | Peter Spier | 22:77-84 |
| Edison and Marconi: Wizards of Invention | Smith Burnham | Peter Spier | 42:85-102 |
| Elephant Herd | Miriam Schlein | Feodor Rojankovsky | 28:85-99 |
| Elephant's Child | Rudyard Kipling | Henry C. Pitz | 6:45-59 |
| Eletelephony and other Verses | Laura E. Richards | Irene Haas | 25:134-143 |
| Emperor's New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen | Roberta MacDonald | 11:62-76 |
| Endless Tale | James Baldwin | Adrienne Adams | 42:71-76 |
| Erminka and the Red Topped Boots | Margery Clark | Maud and Miska Petersham | 42:117-124 |
| Everybody Lends Jerry Muskrat a Hand | Thornton Burgess | Herman B. Vestal | 8:77-84 |
| Experimenting with Electricity | Victor C. Smith, Barbara Henderson, and W.R. Teeters | Earl Thollander | 25:144-155 |
| Exploring Caves | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 21:117-124 |
| Factory Kitty | Helen Hoke | Polly Jackson | 23:125-148 |
| Fairies | William Allingham | Ninon | 36:77-84 |
| Fairy and the Doll | Rose Fyleman | Phyllis Rowand | 23:149-155 |
| Farmyard Song | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 40:136-142 |
| Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes | - no author listed - | Adrienne Adams | 33:36-43 |
| Feeding the Birds this Winter | Robert S. Lemmon | Alexandroff | 26:84-103 |
| Fern and Wilbur (from Charlotte's Web) | E. B. White | Garth Williams | 10a:125-149 |
| First Prayers and Graces | - no author listed - | Ruth Ives | 22:71-76 |
| Fisherman and his Wife | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Robin Jacques | 36:45-60 |
| Fishes of the Shallow Sea | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 8:117-124 |
| Five Favorite Fables | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 18:77-84 |
| Flipper to the Rescue | Richard Harwick | illustrated with photos | 19a:1-36 |
| Follow the Sunset | Herman and Nina Schneider | Aldren Watson | 32:84-101 |
| Fountain of Youth | James Baldwin | Aldren A. Watson | 40:117-124 |
| Frederick Barbarossa | James Baldwin | Ruth Ives | 34:66-75 |
| Frog He Would A-Wooing Go | - no author listed - | Adrienne Adams | 30:77-84 |
| Funny Art Games | Paul Castle | Abner Graboff | 32:102-116 |
| Funny Words and Riddles | Alice Salaff | Andy Warhol | 5:97-104 |
| Galileo and the Lamps | James Baldwin | William Plummer | 22:151-155 |
| Gallant Tailor | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Colleen Browning | 7:60-76 |
| George Washington | Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire | Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire | 18:37-64 |
| Georgie | Robert Bright | Robert Bright | 26:61-76 |
| Giddy-ap, Giddy-ap! | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 8:45-59 |
| Gingerbread Boy | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 11:37-44 |
| Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat | Eugene Field | Idellete Bordigoni | 22:37-40 |
| Go Fly a Kite | Harry Edward Neal | Harvey Weiss | 31:101-116 |
| God that Lived in the Kitchen | Frances Carpenter | Jeanyee Wong | 24:19-37 |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 2:77-84 |
| Gregorio and the White Llama | Laura Bannon | Bobri | 30:45-71 |
| Gulliver in Lilliput | Jonathan Swift | Lawrence Beall Smith | 8:1-36 |
| Hansel and Gretel | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Barbara Cooney | 1:61-76 |
| Harvey and Higgins Incorporated | Alice Dalgliesh | Richard Scarry | 37:66-76 |
| Hawaiian Islands | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 25:156-160 |
| Heart of the Band | Harriet E. Huntington | Polly Jackson | 34:141-155 |
| Heidi Goes to the Pasture | Johanna Spyri | Robin Jacques and Ninon | 41:37-66 |
| Henry and Ribsy Go Fishing | Beverly Cleary | Robert MacLean | 42:125-155 |
| Henry Huggins and Ribs | Beverly Cleary | Richard Scarry | 26:124-143 |
| Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Edward Shenton | 7:1-36 |
| Homemade Holiday Gifts and Greetings | Tina Lee | Luciana Roselli | 28:63-76 |
| Homemade Orchestra | Joseph Leeming | Andy Warhol | 7:109-116 |
| Horatius at the Bridge retold | James Baldwin | Henry C. Pitz | 15:108-116 |
| Horse for a Prince | James Baldwin | Don Freeman | 26:77-83 |
| House that Jack Built | - no author listed - | Leonard Weisgard | 8:37-44 |
| Houses Old and New | Maud and Miska Petersham | Maud and Miska Petersham | 2:37-44 |
| How Morse Sent Letters by Lightning | Smith Burnham | Ray Houlihan | 19:125-134 |
| How the Camel Got His Hump | Rudyard Kipling | Feodor Rojankovsky | 41:77-84 |
| How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin | Rudyard Kipling | Nicolas | 1:40-44 |
| How the Whale Got His Throat | Rudyard Kipling | Don Freeman | 15:36-44 |
| How to Send Secret Messages | Sam and Beryl Epstein | Peter Spier | 38:125-149 |
| Hunt for Unburied Treasure | Hal Burton | Peter Spier | 19:135-155 |
| Hunters from the Sky | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 41:117-124 |
| I Want To Be an Animal Doctor | Carla Greene | Paul Galdone | 19:108-116 |
| In Cactus Land | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 22:156-160 |
| Injun Summer | John T. McCutcheon | Phoebe Erickson | 38:77-84 |
| Insect Friends and Enemies | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 11:117-124 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk edited | Joseph Jacobs | Henry C. Pitz | 2:45-64 |
| Jason and the Golden Fleece | Charles Kingsley | Robin Jacques | 30:1-44 |
| Jerry and the Pony Express | Sanford Tousey | Walter Seaton | 2:125-156 |
| John Paul Jones | Smith Burnham | Herman B. Vestal | 4:145-156 |
| Johnny Penguin | Marguerite and Dorothy Bryan | Seong Moy | 16:85-101 |
| Joyful Poems | - no author listed - | Aldren A. Watson | 9:45-66 |
| Jumblies | Edward Lear | Ezra Jack Keats | 17:100-105 |
| Just-for-Fun Parties | Florence Hamsher | Barbara Corrigan | 15:85-107 |
| Keeping Our Wildlife Safe | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 18:117-124 |
| Kiki Dances | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 37:85-97 |
| Kiki Goes to Camp | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 23:105-116 |
| Kiki Is an Actress | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 42:56-70 |
| Kiki Loves Music | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 3:105-116 |
| Kiki Skates | Charlotte Steiner | Charlotte Steiner | 29:63-76 |
| King of the Golden River | John Ruskin, retold by Sara Cone | Robin Jacques | 37:1-18 |
| Kintu | Elizabeth Enright | Bobri | 23:44-76 |
| Lad and other Sunnybank Dogs | Albert Payson Terhune | Phoebe Erickson | 25:44-91 |
| Lad Who Went to the North Wind | Peter Christen Askjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe | Elizabeth Skilton | 39:149-155 |
| Land of Storybooks | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ruth Ives | 18:1-3 |
| Lassie Come-Home | Eric Knight | Phoebe Erickson | 10:1-36 |
| Legend of the Inchcape Rock | James Baldwin | Richard M. Powers | 20:117-124 |
| Let's Go to Arabia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 38:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Argentina | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 41:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Belgium | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 39:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Chile | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 37:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Colombia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 29:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Five Little Countries | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 34:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Germany | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 42:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Greece | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 36:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Iceland and Greenland | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 31:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Indonesia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 28:156-160 |
| Let's Go To Israel | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 18:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Pakistan | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 32:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Peru | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 33:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Portugal | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 26:156-160 |
| Let's Go to Scandinavia | Gladys Schwarcz | illustrated with photos | 40:76-85 |
| Let's Go to the South Sea Islands | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 30:156-160 |
| Let's Go To Turkey | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 27:156-160 |
| Let's Look at Russia | Gladys Schwarcz | Earl Thollander | 35:116-125 |
| Let's Visit Alaska | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 13:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Austria | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 16:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Bermuda | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 21:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Brazil | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 12:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Canada | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 19:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Ceylon | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 11:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Ecuador | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 23:156-160 |
| Let's Visit France | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 8:157-160 |
| Let's Visit India | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 15:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Ireland | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 24:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Japan | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 7:157-160 |
| Let's Visit Puerto Rico | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 17:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Scotland | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 14:156-160 |
| Let's Visit South Africa | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 9:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Spain | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 10:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Thailand | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 22:117-124 |
| Let's Visit the Belgian Congo | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 18X:156-160 |
| Let's Visit Yugoslavia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 20:156-160 |
| Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Far West | Smith Burnham | Edward Shenton | 31:1-27 |
| Life Along the Amazon | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 16:117-124 |
| Life in the Arctic | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 6:117-124 |
| Life in the Everglades | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 7:117-124 |
| Life on a Farm | Robert S. Lemmon | Garry MacKenzie | 13:116-140 |
| Lightning: A Cowboy's Colt | Bill and Bernard Martin | Edward Shenton | 17:28-53 |
| Lion Cub | Hamilton Williamson | Feodor Rojankovsky | 21:38-44 |
| Little Daylight | George MacDonald, retold by Sara Cone Bryant | Robin Jacques | 29:44-62 |
| Little Eddie, Junk Collector | Carolyn Haywood | Robert MacLean | 39:125-135 |
| Little Fellow | Marguerite Henry | Phoebe Erickson | 34:46-65 |
| Little Folk's Party | Florence Hamsher | Luciana Roselli | 3:97-104 |
| Little Heroine of Concord | Louisa May Alcott | Ruth Ives | 11:14-36 |
| Little Known Mammals | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 5:77-84 |
| Little Red Hen | - no author listed - | Andy Warhol | 15:77-84 |
| Little Red Riding Hood | - no author listed - | Richard Scarry | 7:37-44 |
| Little Tuppen | James Baldwin | Leonard Kessler | 28:117-124 |
| Little Two Eyes | Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm | Robin Jacques | 20:102-116 |
| Lollypops and Automobiles and How They Are Made | Mary Elting | Leonard Kessler | 2:101-115 |
| Lost in the Apple Cave | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | Ninon | 39:63-75 |
| Lovely Time | Audrey Chalmers | Polly Jackson | 36:101-116 |
| Magic Fishbone | Charles Dickens | Robin Jacques | 17:1-27 |
| Magic Porridge Pot | - no author listed - | Andy Warhol | 21:77-84 |
| Magic Shop | Maurice Dolbier | Fritz Eichenberg | 28:125-155 |
| Magic Skipping Rope | Rose Fyleman | Harvey Weiss | 30:72-76 |
| Man in the Manhole and the Fix-it Men | Juniper Sage | Earl Thollander | 39:136-148 |
| Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes | Phyllis Krasilovsky | Peter Spier | 12:67-76 |
| Marco Polo's Travels | Roger Duvoisin | Vladimir Bobri | 33:1-27 |
| Marjorie's Almanac | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Leonard Weisgard | 29:37-43 |
| Master of All Masters | Joseph Jacobs | Adrienne Adams | 40:112-116 |
| Me and the Bears | Robert Bright | Robert Bright | 4:65-76 |
| Michael Who Missed his Train | Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan | Grace Paull | 27:45-58 |
| Middle Bear | Eleanor Estes | Phyllis Rowand | 31:45-66 |
| Mike Fink: An American Tall Tale | Michael Gorham | Richard Bennett | 23:85-104 |
| Milly and Her Dogs | Lena Barksdale | Theresa Sherman | 21:69-76 |
| Miss Ant, Miss Grasshopper, and Mr. Cricket | Rachel Field | Paul Galdone | 13:141-155 |
| Mop Top | Don Freeman | 41:85-92 | |
| Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes | - no author listed - | Marguerite de Angeli | 39:37-44 |
| Mother Goose Rhymes | - no author listed - | Leonard Weisgard | 1:77-84 |
| Mouse with Bobbed Whiskers | Rose Fyleman | Paul Galdone | 34:117-124 |
| Mr. A and Mr. P. | Margery Williams Bianco | Grace Paull | 19:63-74 |
| Mr. Apple Names the Children | Jean McDevitt | Ninon | 2:65-76 |
| Mr. Mailman | Jene Barr | Leonard Kessler | 24:147-155 |
| Mr. Murdle's Large Heart | Margery Williams Bianco | Irene Haas | 40:125-135 |
| Mrs. Goose and her Friends | Miriam Clark Potter | Paul Galdone | 37:98-116 |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Won't-pick-up-toys Cure | Betty MacDonald | Burmah Burris | 36:61-76 |
| Mushrooms and their Cousins | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 25:117-124 |
| My Pet, Peepelo | Ellis Credle | Lloyd Goff | 15:125-155 |
| Napoleon, the Corsican Boy | Smith Burnham | Richard Moss | 8:104-116 |
| Nature in Motion | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 14:117-124 |
| Nature's Hiding Secrets | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 4:117-124 |
| Nature's Home Builders | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 33:117-124 |
| Night Before Christmas | Clement C. Moore | Joseph Giordano | 4:77-84 |
| Nightingale | Hans Christian Andersen | Colleen Browning | 39:45-62 |
| No, No, Taffy! | Jean McDevitt | Janina Domanska | 14:125-155 |
| Noah's Ark | Tony Palazzo | Tony Palazzo | 36:1-36 |
| North America's Wonderful Wildlife | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 29:117-124 |
| Nutcracker and the Mouse-king | E.T.A. Hoffman | Lawrence Beall Smith | 28:34-45 |
| Obedient Jack | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 38:117-124 |
| Old Mother Goose Rhymes | - no author listed - | Marguerite de Angeli | 13:37-44 |
| Old Mother Hubbard | - no author listed - | Adrienne Adams | 17:77-84 |
| Old Whirlwind | Elizabeth Coatsworth | Manning de V. Lee | 34:85-116 |
| Old Woman and Her Pig | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 14:77-84 |
| Oldest, the Youngest, and the One in the Middle | Lillian Gardner | Dagmar Wilson | 15:45-63 |
| One Horse Farm | Dahlov Ipcar | Dahlov Ipcar | 41:93-106 |
| Our Nation's Capital | Gladys Schwarcz | illustrated with photos | 20:76-84 |
| Our Neighbors in Space | illy Ley | Chesley Bonestell | 2:116-124 |
| Our Vanishing Wildlife | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 15:117-124 |
| Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Verses | Edward Lear | Paul Galdone | 3:69-76 |
| Pancakes for Breakfast | duplicate | Grace Paull | 1:135-156 |
| Pandora | - no author listed - | Colleen Browning | 35:77-84 |
| Paul Bunyan: Hero of the Lumber Woods | Wallace Wadsworth | Richard Bennett | 29:1-36 |
| Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lawrence Beall Smith | 11:1-13 |
| Peanuts Are Not Nuts and Other Surprising Facts | Robert L. Ripley | 10:85-91 | |
| Peary, Hero of the Great White North | Smith Burnham | Paul Lantz | 20:45-57 |
| Pedlar of Swaffham | Joseph Jacobs | Colleen Browning | 24:38-44 |
| Pege, Squire, and Knight | Eva March Tappan | Vladimir Bobri | 40:86-102 |
| Penny and the White Horse | Marjory Collison and Margery Bianco | Janina Domanska | 10:45-56 |
| Pet of the Met | Don and Lydia Freeman | Don and Lydia Freeman | 35:44-60 |
| Pete the Parakeet Finds a Friend | Irma Simonton Black | Harvey Weiss | 20:125-155 |
| Peter Rabbit's Prank | Thornton W. Burgess | Leonard Weisgard | 32:117-124 |
| Peterkin Family | Lucretia P. Hale | Lawrence Beall Smith | 16:1-43 |
| Pets Around the World | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 39:117-124 |
| Philadelphia: Cradle of Liberty | Gladys Schwarcz | Remy Charlip | 23:77-84 |
| Picnic Basket | Margery Clark | Maud and Miska Petersham | 31:77-84 |
| Pied Piper of Hamelin Town | Sara Cone Bryant | Lawrence Beall Smith | 3:1-18 |
| Pioneer Cities of America | Ella Gates Jones | Don Sibley | 38:36-45 |
| Plants to Have Fun With | Millicent E. Selsam | Suzan Noguchi Swain | 40:103-111 |
| Plink, Plink! | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | Leonard and Ethel Kessler | 12:101-116 |
| Pocahontas | - no author listed - | Vladimir Bobri | 36:37-44 |
| Poems Around the Year | - no author listed - | Polly Jackson | 14:62-76 |
| Poems of the City | Rachel Field | Harvey Weiss | 6:60-76 |
| Poppy Seed Cakes | Margery Clark | Maud and Miska Petersham | 10:77-84 |
| Post Captain: Sir Peter Bombazoo | Charles Edward Carryl | Robin Jacques | 19:38-44 |
| Prehistoric Animals of North America | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 40:156-160 |
| Princess and the Pea | Hans Christian Andersen | Kate Seredy | 9:77-84 |
| Princess on the Glass Hill | - no author listed - | Lawrence Beall Smith | 27:59-77 |
| Puppet Play | Tina Lee | Manning Lee | 1:101-108 |
| Puss in Boots | Charles Perrault | Barbara Cooney | 15:64-76 |
| Pysen Goes to Blueviken | Edith Unnerstad | Richard Scarry | 29:125-155 |
| Quiet Mother and the Noisy Little Boy | Charlotte Zolotow | Vladimir Bobri | 20:85-95 |
| Rabbits as Pets | Margery Williams Bianco | Phoebe Erickson | 21:125-141 |
| Raggedy Andy Meets Raggedy Ann | Johnny Gruelle | Johnny Gruelle | 18:85-105 |
| Raggedy Man | James Whitcomb Riley | Phoebe Erickson | 24:78-84 |
| Rapunzel | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Lawrence Beall Smith | 21:58-68 |
| Rhymes to Learn | - no author listed - | Harvey Weiss | 10:107-116 |
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | Leonard Weisgard | 19:1-37 |
| Robert E. Lee | Smith Burnham | Ray Houlihan | 14:37-49 |
| Robert Fulton and the Steamboat | Smith Burnham | Edward Shenton | 13:107-115 |
| Robi and Hanni in the Swiss Alps | Emma Brock | Polly Jackson | 7:125-156 |
| Robin Hood | Mary MacNab | H. B. Vestal | 41:1-36 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Edward Shenton | 27:1-44 |
| Rock-a-by Lady | Eugene Field | Idellete Bordigoni | 22:41-44 |
| Roger and the Fox | Lavinia R. Davis | Theresa Sherman | 40:52-66 |
| Rosa-Too-Little | Sue Felt | Ninon | 17:106-116 |
| Rufus Moffat's First Day of School | Eleanor Estes | Phyllis Rowand | 19:85-107 |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Fritz,Kredel | 10:57-64 |
| Saddler's Horse | Margery Williams Bianco | Grace Paull | 6:125-140 |
| Salt-water 'Zoos' | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 31:117-124 |
| Science Quizzes and Experiments | Jane Sherman | Peter Spier | 30:140-155 |
| Shawneen and the Gander | Richard Bennett | Richard Bennett | 33:44-70 |
| Shells of Land and Sea | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 19:117-124 |
| Shire Colt | Jan and Zhenya Gay | Phoebe Erickson | 7:45-59 |
| Shoemaker and the Elves | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Fritz Kredel | 6:77-84 |
| Simple Sewing: A Doll and Her Clothes | Tina Lee | Luciana Roselli | 35:106-115 |
| Sing for Christmas | - no author listed - | Ruth Ives | 16:70-76 |
| Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals | Mary Frere | Edy Legrand | 31:37-44 |
| Sir Francis Drake | Smith Burnham | Ray Houlihan | 26:38-53 |
| Sir Launcelot, Knight of the Round Table | Mary MacLeod | Henry C. Pitz | 22:1-36 |
| Sleeping Beauty | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Colleen Browning | 13:85-94 |
| Snipp Snapp Snurr and the Buttered Bread | Maj Lindman | Barbara Cooney | 25:125-133 |
| Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes | Maj Lindman | Virginia Parsons | 5:141-156 |
| Snow White and Rose Red | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Idellete Bordigoni | 34:1-21 |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Susanne Suba | 4:125-144 |
| Some Adventures of a Brownie | Dinah Maria Mulock | Robin Jacques | 14:1-36 |
| Some Favorite Game Birds of Land and Water | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 37:117-124 |
| Songs of Nature | Alfred Tennyson | Polly Jackson | 42:45-55 |
| Sophocles the Hyena | Jim Moran | Andy Warhol | 33:85-104 |
| Sounds We Hear | Beatrice Davis Hurley and Gerald S. Craig | Ezra Jack Keats | 10:92-106 |
| Squash for the Fair | Grace Paull | Polly Jackson | 22:45-55 |
| Star-spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key | Phoebe Erickson | 35:36-43 |
| Steadfast Tin Soldier | Hans Christian Andersen | Idellete Bordigoni | 37:35-44 |
| Story Book of Ships | Maud and Miska Petersham | Peter Spier | 17:54-76 |
| Story Book of Wheels | Maud and Miska Petersham | Maud and Miska Petersham | 8:85-103 |
| Story of Chan Yuc | Dorothy Rhoads | Bobri | 27:125-155 |
| Story of Early America | Donald Culross Peattie | Leonard Weisgard | 6:1-36 |
| Story of Gold | Maud and Miska Petersham | Maud and Miska Petersham | 1:85-100 |
| Story of the First Men | Donald Culross Peattie | Feodor Rojankovsky | 7:85-108 |
| Story of William Tell | James Baldwin | Lawrence Beall Smith | 10:37-44 |
| Straw, the Coal, and the Bean | Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm | Idelette Bordigoni | 27:78-83 |
| Streamlined Wonder World | Davis Cole | Richard M. Powers | 29:104-116 |
| Sugar Plum Tree | Eugene Field | Adrienne Adams | 5:73-76 |
| Sun Keeps Us Warm | Katherine Clarke, W.R. Teeters, and Victor C. Smith | George Giusti | 12:85-100 |
| Sword of Damocles | James Baldwin | Leonard Weisgard | 24:117-124 |
| Tattercoats | Joseph Jacobs | Colleen Browning | 31:28-36 |
| Ted and Nina Have a Happy Rainy Day | Marguerite De Angeli | Ruth Ives | 38:59-76 |
| Tell Me about People | Ellen Wales Walpole | Theresa Sherman | 36:140-155 |
| Tell Me About the Sky | Ellen Wales Walpole | Jack Wolfgang Beck | 22:85-105 |
| Tell Me the Time Please | Lillian J. Bragdon | Leonard Kessler | 29:85-103 |
| Tell Me Why | Ellen Wales Walpole | Judith Shahn | 14:99-116 |
| Ten Little Indians | - no author listed - | Leonard Kessler | 13:77-84 |
| Terrible Mr. Twitmeyer | Lilian Moore and Leone Adelson | Paul Galdone | 30:85-116 |
| Theodore Roosevelt: Rough Rider President | - no author listed - | Ray Houlihan | 10a:149-155 |
| They Sailed on the Mayflower | Michael Gorham | Fritz Kredel | 15:1-35 |
| This Amazing Planet: Earth | Jane Sherman | George Giusti | 18:147-155 |
| This is Australia | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 1:157-160 |
| This Is England | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 5:157-160 |
| This Is Holland | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 2:157-160 |
| This Is Italy | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 6:157-160 |
| This Is Mexico | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 3:157-160 |
| This Is Switzerland | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 4:157-160 |
| Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy | Smith Burnham | Henry Pitz | 41:125-133 |
| Three Billy Goats Gruff | - no author listed - | Feodor Rojankovsky | 29:77-84 |
| Three Kings | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ruth Ives | 28:77-84 |
| Three Little Kittens | - no author listed - | Leonard Weisgard | 12:77-84 |
| Three Little Pigs | Joseph Jacobs | Richard Scarry | 10:65-76 |
| Three Seeds | Hester Hawkes | Hildegarde Woodward | 31:130-155 |
| Three Sillies | - no author listed - | Roberta MacDonald | 24:85-95 |
| Thumbelina | Hans Christian Andersen | Roberta MacDonald | 16:44-69 |
| Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog | duplicate | Marjorie Flack | 11:45-61 |
| Timothy Titus | Blanche Elliott | Ninon | 26:54-60 |
| Tinder Box | Hans Christian Andersen | Elizabeth Skilton | 35:61-76 |
| Toads and Diamonds | Charles Perrault | Aldren Watson | 30:117-124 |
| Tom, the Piper's Son | - no author listed - | Roberta MacDonald | 23:38-43 |
| Toys You Can Make | Tina Lee | Manning Lee | 16:102-116 |
| Traveling the Underground Railroad | Michael Gorham | Polly Jackson | 10:125-155 |
| Travels of Babar | Jean de Brunhoff | Jean de Brunhoff | 5:37-68 |
| Tricks to Fool Your Friends | Robert North | Leonard Kessler | 41:146-155 |
| Trip to the Pond | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 36:117-124 |
| Trucks Are Fun | Mary Elting | Ninon | 5:85-96 |
| True Book of Dinosaurs | Mary Lou Clark | Garry MacKenzie | 14:85-98 |
| True Book of Health | Olive V. Haynes | Harvey Weiss | 41:134-145 |
| True Book of Indians | Teri Martini | Lorence T. Bjorklund | 28:100-116 |
| True Book of Little Eskimos | Donalda McKillop Copeland | Edward Shenton | 42:103-116 |
| True Book of Policemen and Firemen | Irene Miner | Harvey Weiss | 11:85-99 |
| True Book of Space | Illa Podendorf | Richard Scarry | 39:86-101 |
| True Book of the Circus | Mabel Harmer | Paul Galdone | 9:102-116 |
| True Book of Tools for Building | Jerome Leavitt | Harvey Weiss | 21:142-155 |
| True Book of Toys at Work | John Lewellen | Harvey Weiss | 37:125-145 |
| Twelve Days of Christmas | - no author listed - | Leonard Weisgard | 16:77-84 |
| Twenty Ways to Play Tag | Bernard S. Mason and Elmer D. Mitchell | Colleen Browning | 11:100-116 |
| Ugly Duckling | Hans Christian Andersen | Barbara Cooney | 3:19-36 |
| Ulysses and the Wooden Horse of Troy | James Baldwin | Aldren Watson | 13:1-36 |
| Ulysses S. Grant: The General Who Hated War | Smith Burnham | Edward Shenton | 40:143-155 |
| Unc' Billy Possum | Thornton Burgess | Feodor Rojankovsky | 26:117-123 |
| Val Rides the Oregon Trail | Sanford Tousey | Edward Shenton | 12:125-155 |
| Valiant Chatteemaker | Mary Frere | Nicolas | 22:56-70 |
| Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | Maurice Sendak | 35:85-105 |
| Very Little Girl | Phyllis Krasilovsky | Ninon | 6:37-44 |
| Vickie and the Mixed-up Twins | Carolyn Haywood | Irene Haas | 24:96-116 |
| Wait for William | Marjorie Flack | Leonard Weisgard | 14:50-61 |
| Walrus and the Carpenter | Lewis Carroll | Aldren A. Watson | 41:67-76 |
| War Whoop of the Wily Iroquois | Martha Keller | Robert MacLean | 26:104-116 |
| Water, from Reservoir to You | Herman and Nina Schneider | Jack Wolfgang Beck | 33:105-116 |
| We Live in Air | Sara E. Baldwin and Gerald S. Craig | Joseph Cleary | 3:85-96 |
| Weapons in Nature | 23:117-124 | ||
| Wee Brigit O'Toole | Richard and Ruth Holberg | Polly Jackson | 39:102-116 |
| What a Magnet Can Do | Sara E. Baldwin and Gerald S. Craig | Ezra Jack Keats | 1:109-116 |
| What Eddie Brought Home | Carolyn Haywood | Ezra Jack Keats | 9:67-76 |
| What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right | Hans Christian Andersen | Maurice Sendak | 41:107-116 |
| When the Root Children Wake Up | Helen Dean Fish | Aldren A. Watson | 19:75-84 |
| Whistle for the Train | Golden MacDonald | Leonard Weisgard | 25:92-101 |
| Why Men Hunt Rocks | - no author listed - | illustrated with photos | 27:117-124 |
| Wild Swans | Hans Christian Andersen | Colleen Browning | 26:1-37 |
| Willie Goes to the Hospital | Pauline Vinson | Pauline Vinson | 22:106-116 |
| Windy Wash Day and Other Poems | Dorothy Aldis | Maurice Sendak | 31:85-100 |
| Winged Horse: Pegasus | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Colleen Browning | 21:1-37 |
| Wisdom of Five Famous Men | James Baldwin | Edward Shenton | 37:45-65 |
| Wishes | Sara Cone Bryant | Robin Jacques | 40:67-75 |
| With Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | John Tenniel | 12:1-66 |
| With Dorothy in Oz | L. Frank Baum | Richard Scarry | 40:1-51 |
| Wonderful Story of Moses | Mary MacNab | Robin Jacques | 25:1-36 |
| Wonderful Tar-baby and other Brer Rabbit Stories | Joel Chandler Harris, adapted by Margaret Wise Brown | A.B. Frost | 38:1-35 |
| Wonderful Teakettle | - no author listed - | Eiichi Mitsui | 35:126-133 |
| World Uses Electricity | Sara E. Baldwin and Gerald S. Craig | Garry MacKenzie | 9:85-101 |
| Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Flight | Arch Whitehouse | Harvey Weiss | 36:85-100 |
| Wynken, Blynken, and Nod | Eugene Field | Adrienne Adams | 5:69-72 |
| Yonie Wondernose | Marguerite de Angeli | Marguerite de Angeli | 3:37-68 |
| Your Breakfast Egg | Benjamin C. Gruenberg and Leone Adelson | Leonard Kessler | 6:109-116 |
| Your Own Aquarium | Barbara Henderson, Victor C. Smith and W.R. Teeters | Ezra Jack Keats | 4:100-116 |
