• This is our Land: the story of water, soil, and other natural resources, Christopher Pub. House, 1954
  • The Story of Virginia, Random House, 1949
  • Zickle’s Puppy Dog, Greystone Press, 1942
  • Littling of Gaywood, Dietz Press, 1939, 1945, Random House, 1939
  • Lost and Found, T. Nelson & Sons, 1939
  • Zickle’s Luck, Macmillan Co., 1938
  • Lost Covers, Random House, 1937
  • Three Circus Day, Macmillan Co., 1935
  • Echo Hill, Macmillan Co., 1933
  • Teachers’ manual to Book World (with Rose Lees Hardy), Newson & Co., 1930
  • Teachers’ manual to Book Adventures (with Rose Lees Hardy), Newson & Co., 1930
  • Book Adventures, Newson & Co., 1929
  • Book Friends, Newson & Co., 1929
  • Teachers’s manual to Book Friends (with Rose Lees Hardy), Newson & Co., 1929
  • Book World, Newson & Co., 1929
  • Newson Readers/Book 4 (with Rose Lees Hardy), Newson & Co., 1927
  • Whistling Jimps, Century, 1922
  • Treasure Mountain, The Century Co., 1921
  • The Old Mine’s Secret, Macmillan, 1921, 1938
  • Fables Every Child Should Know, B.F. Johnson, 1920
  • Treasure Mountain, The Century Company, 1920
  • Peggy of Roundabout Lane, Macmillan Co., 1917
  • Lilly Jane’s Wash-Pot, Virginia Stationary Co., 1917
  • Outdoors (selected verse and prose with illustrations from photographs taken at Mountain Lake, Virginia), Virginia Stationary Co., 1916
  • Abram’s Freedom, The Pilgrim Press, 1913
  • Happy Acres, Macmillan Co., 1913
  • A Short History of the American People, Macmillan Co., 1911, 1912
  • Honey Sweet, Macmillan Co., 1911
  • An Elegy in a Country Churchyard and other poems (ed.; Thomas Gray, author), Merrill, 1909
  • Agriculture, its fundamental principles (with Andrew M. Soule), B.F. Johnson Press, 1907
  • Brief Biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades: required by the syllabus for elementary schools of New York State Education Department, C.E. Merrill Co., 1907
  • Essays, C.E. Merrill Co., 1907
  • Famous Painters. Book 1–2, Maynard, Merrill, 1906
  • The Rose Primer, American Book Co., 1905
  • Classic Fables: selected for primary grades, Maynard, Merrill, 1904
  • Fairy Tales, Maynard, Merrill, 1904
  • Poems for Reading and Selections for memorizing in the seventh year, Merrill, 1904
  • Grimm’s fairy tales, Maynard, Merrill, 1903
  • The Lee Readers (First book), American Book, 1902
  • A Child’s Book of Poetry, Maynard, Merrill, 1901
  • The Gold Bug, Maynard, Merrill, 1898
  • Saul, and other poems, Maynard, Merrill, 1898
  • The Water Babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (edited and abridged by Turpin; author, Charles Kingsley), Maynard, Merrill, 1898
  • Selected Poems, Harper & Brothers, 1878