☆ The Cat Who Went to Heaven : Elizabeth Coatsworth [1931]
- Floating Island : Anne Parrish
- The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess : Alida Malkus
- Queer Person : Ralph Hubbard
- Mountains are Free : Julie Davis Adams
- Spice and the Devil's Cave : Agnes Hewes
- Meggy MacIntosh : Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes : Herbert Best
- Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer : Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
☆ Waterless Mountain : Laura Adams Armer [1932]
- The Fairy Circus : Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Calico Bush : Rachel Field
- Boy of the South Seas : Eunice Tietjens
- Out of the Flame : Eloise Lownsbery
- Jane's Island : Marjorie Allee
- Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy : Mary Gould Davis
☆ Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze : Elizabeth Lewis [1933]
- Swift Rivers : Cornelia Meigs
- The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War : Hildegarde Swift
- Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia : Nora Burglon
☆ Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women : Cornelia Meigs [1934]
- The Forgotten Daughter : Caroline Snedeker
- Swords of Steel : Elsie Singmaster
- ABC Bunny : Wanda Gág
- Winged Girl of Knossos : Erik Berry
- New Land by Sarah Schmidt
- Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside : Padraic Colum
- Glory of the Seas : Agnes Hewes
- Apprentice of Florence : Ann Kyle
☆ Dobry : Monica Shannon [1935]
- Pageant of Chinese History : Elizabeth Seeger
- Davy Crockett : Constance Rourke
- Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic : Hilda Von Stockum
☆ Caddie Woodlawn : Carol Ryrie Brink [1936]
- Honk, the Moose : Phil Stong
- The Good Master : Kate Seredy
- Young Walter Scott : Elizabeth Janet Gray
- All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud : Armstrong Sperry
☆ Roller Skates : Ruth Sawyer [1937]
- Phebe Fairchild: Her Book : Lois Lenski
- Whistler's Van : Idwal Jones
- The Golden Basket : Ludwig Bemelmans
- Winterbound : Margery Bianco
- The Codfish Musket : Agnes Hewes
- Audubon : Constance Rourke
☆ The White Stag : Kate Seredy [1938]
- Pecos Bill : James Cloyd Bowman
- Bright Island : Mabel Robinson
- On the Banks of Plum Creek : Laura Ingalls Wilder
☆ Thimble Summer : Elizabeth Enright [1939]
- Nino : Valenti Angelo
- Mr. Popper's Penguins : Richard & Florence Atwater
- Hello the Boat! : Phyllis Crawford
- Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot : Jeanette Eaton
- Penn : Elizabeth Janet Gray
☆ Daniel Boone : James Daugherty [1940]
- The Singing Tree : Kate Seredy
- Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz : Mabel Robinson
- By the Shores of Silver Lake : Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boy with a Pack : Stephen W. Meader
