- Rex, Simon James
- Winter dance, written by Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrated by Richard Jones
- Chee-Kee, a panda in Bearland, Sujean Rim
- The best place in the world, Petr Horácek
- Magnets push, magnets pull, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Anna Raff
- Where the wild things are, Maurice Sendak
- You're here for a reason, Nancy Tillman
- Jabari jumps, Gaia Cornwall
- The tea party in the woods, Akiko Miyakoshi
- The most amazing creature in the sea, Brenda Z. Guiberson ; illustrated by Gennady Spirin
- Funny bones, Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras, Duncan Tonatiuh
- Puddle, Hyewon Yum
- Dance party countdown, by Eric Litwin ; illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
- The darkest dark, written by Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion ; illustrated by the Fan Brothers
- Gator dad, written and illustrated by Brian Lies
- Chuck and Woodchuck, Cece Bell
- School's first day of school, story by Adam Rex ; pictures by Christian Robinson
- Pearl goes to preschool, Julie Fortenberry
- Germs, fact and fiction, friends and foes, Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- The house that Zack built, Alison Murray
- Anna's heaven, Stian Hole ; [translated by] Don Bartlett
- Beavers, by Rachel Poliquin ; illustrated by Nicholas John Frith
- Fancy Nancy, oodles of kittens, written by Jane O'Connor ; illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
- Spectacular spots, written and illustrated by Susan Stockdale
- Circle, Jeannie Baker
- My house, Byron Barton
- Plant the tiny seed, Christie Matheson
- You can't have too many friends!, Mordicai Gerstein
- Saving the Tasmanian devil, how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
- Laundry day, Jessixa Bagley
- A perfect day, Lane Smith
- Rainbow weaver, Tejedora del arcoíris, story/cuento Linda Elovitz Marshall ; illustrations/ilustraciones Elisa Chavarri ; translation/traducción Eida de la Vega
- Zog and the flying doctors, by Julia Donaldson & illustrated by Axel Scheffler
- Beatrix Potter and her paint box, David McPhail
- Martina & Chrissie, the greatest rivalry in the history of sports, Phil Bildner ; illustrated by Brett Helquist
- Aalfred and Aalbert, [written and illustrated by] Morag Hood
- A child of books, Oliver Jeffers ; Sam Winston
- Edward Hopper paints his world, Robert Burleigh ; paintings by Wendell Minor
- My pen, Christopher Myers
- The mixed-up truck, by Stephen Savage
- Lovely beasts, the surprising truth, Kate Gardner ; [illustrated by] Heidi Smith
- Shrunken treasures, literary classics, short, sweet, and silly, Scott Nash
- Shaking things up, 14 young women who changed the world, by Susan Hood ; illustrated by Selina Alko, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Hadley Hooper, Emily Winfield Martin, Oge Mora, Julie Morstad, Sara Palacios, LeUyen Pham, Erin K. Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Shadra Strickland, and Melissa Sweet
- Little Elliot, fall friends, Mike Curato
- ABC dream, Kim Krans
- The brilliant deep, rebuilding the world's coral reefs : the story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation, Kate Messner ; Matthew Forsythe
- On the farm, at the market, G. Brian Karas
- Baabwaa & Wooliam, David Elliott ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
- Love Monster and the scary something, Rachel Bright
- Ideas are all around, Philip C. Stead