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Title	Author	Description
The Backward Day Backward Day	Ruth Krauss Krauss	The author of The Carrot Seed and the illustrator of Nate the Great, who together produced the Caldecott Award-winning The Happy Day, reunite for this charming story of a little boy who decides to live the day in reverse, from putting his underclothes on over his coat and pants to greeting his family at the breakfast table with a "Good night!" Contributors: Marc Simont
Foxie: The Singing Dog Foxie	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Aulaire	Based on the Chekhov short story "Kashtanka," this beautiful and touching picture book about a little singing dog is "one of the best of the excellent books by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire." —The New York Times
Jenny's Birthday Book Jenny's Birthday Book	Esther Averill Averill	Today is the day, the day of days, the day of Jenny Linsky's birthday!
Jenny's Moonlight Adventure Jenny's Moonlight	Esther Averill Averill	It's Halloween—a special night for black cats everywhere, especially Jenny .
The Mousewife Mousewife	Rumer Godden Godden	Rumer Godden's beautiful tale of a downtrodden mouse and her friendship with a caged dove is based on a story by Dorothy Wordsworth. William Pène du Bois's elegant pen-and-ink drawings complement this meditation on love and freedom. Contributors: William Pène du Bois
The School For Cats School for Cats	Esther Averill Averill	"Five to eight-year-olds who have their own problems of adjustment in school will rejoice in Jenny's moral triumph." —The New York Times
The Sorely Trying Day Sorely Trying Day	Russell and Lillian Hoban Hoban	What a mess! The cat is on top of the grandfather clock, the dog is barking and lunging, and all the children are squabbling and shouting. Well, who started it? Each child points to the next, and even the dog blames the cat. But the truth is another story. From the author and illustrator of the Frances books.
Wee Gillis Wee Gillis	Munro Leaf Leaf	By the author and illustrator of the bestselling children's book The Story of Ferdinand. Wee Gillis spends half the year with his father's rough and rawkus highland people and the other half with his mother's gentle sheephearding folk. But it's up to him to decide where he fits in. Contributors: Robert Lawson
D'Aulaires' Book of Animals Book of Animals	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Aulaire	This remarkably beautiful volume unfolds into an 8-foot long two-sided panoramic work of art on which the animals of the world are rendered in vibrant color and the moonlit shades of night.
Cheerful Cheerful	Palmer Brown Brown	Cheerful is a city mouse who spends his days frolicking in the church where he lives with his siblings, but he longs for the country, where mice run free. Palmer Brown's filigreed drawings turn this story into an instrument of enchantment as glorious as the sugar-spun Easter egg that conveys Cheerful to his pastoral home.