• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France. Retold from Charles Perrault and other French storytellers.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in England. Retold from Joseph Jacobs.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Russia. Retold from Russian Storytellers.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in India.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Germany. Retold from the Brothers Grimm.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Sweden.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Poland.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland. Retold from Irish Storytellers.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Denmark.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Japan.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Greece.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy.
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway. Retold from Norse Folklore.

• Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Fairy Tale Treasury. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. London: Hamish Hamilton, c1972.
• Andersen, Hans Christian. The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories. Translated by Eric Christian Haugaard. Foreword by Virginia Haviland. New York: Doubleday & Co., c1974.
• Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Openhearted Audience: Ten Authors Talk about Writing for Children. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1980. (Featuring: Introduction by Virginia Haviland; "Only Connect" by P.L. Travers; "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author" (an interview of Maurice Sendak by Virginia Haviland); "Between Family and Fantasy: An Author's Perspectives on Children's Books" by Joan Aiken; "Portrait of a Poet: Hans Christian Andersen and His Fairy Tales" by Erik Christian Haugaard; "Sources and Responses" by Ivan Southall; "The Child and the Shadow" by Ursula K. Le Guin; "Illusion and Relatiy" by Virginia Hamilton; "Under Two Hats" by John Rowe Townsend; "Into Something Rich and Strange: Of Dreams, Art, and the Unconscious" by Eleanor Cameron; and "The Lords of Time" by Jill Paton Walsh.)
• Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughlan. Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry & Pictures: Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, c1974.
• Haviland, Virginia (ed). North American Legends. New York: Putnam Pub Group Juv, c1981. / (Faber Book of...) London: Faber & Faber, c1979.
• Haviland, Virginia (ed). Children & Poetry: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1969.
• Haviland, Virginia. William Penn: Founder and Friend. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, c1952.
• Haviland, Virginia. Children and Literature Views and Reviews. Scott, Foresman, c1973.
• Haviland, Virginia. The Stone of Fictory and Other Tales of Padraic Colum. New York: McGraw Hill, c1966.
• Bechtel, Louise Seaman. Books in Search of Children - Speeches and Essays by Louise Seaman Bechtel. Edited by Virginia Haviland. New York: MacMillan, c1969 / London: Hamish Hamilton, c1970.
• Elleman, Barbara and Virginia Haviland. Children's Books of International Interest. Chicago: American Library Association, c1972.
• Haviland, Virginia. Children's Literature - A Guide to Reference Sources. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1966.
• Haviland, Virginia. Ruth Sawyer, a Walck Monograph. New York: Henry Z. Walck, c1965.
• Field, Carolyn W., Virginia Haviland, Elizabeth Nesbitt. Subject Collections in Children's Literature. American Library Association. Committee on National Planning for Special Collections of Children's Books. New York: R.R. Bowker and Co., c1969.
• Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughland. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a Centennial for Tom Sawyer, an Annotated Selected Bibliography. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1976.
• Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Best Children's Books: 1964-1978 With 1979 Addenda. Illustrated by Debbie Dieneman. New York: University Press Books, c1981.
• Blishen, Edward and Nancy. A Treasury of Stories For Five Year Olds. Illustrated by Polly Noakes. (Includes "The Cat and the Parrot" by Virginia Haviland.) New York: Kingfisher, c1989.

• International Board on Books for Children (member of executive board)
• International Federation of Library Associations (member of executive committee)
• P.E.N.
• Authors Guild
• Authors League of America (the parent of the Author's Guild)
• American Library Association (chairman of Children's Library Association, 1954-55 Chairman of Book Evaluation Committee, 1962—63)
• National Council of Administrative Women in Education
• National Society of Women Geographers
• District of Columbia Library Association
• Washington Children's Book Guild
• Pi Lamda Theta

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