Picture Book Treasuries

Sometimes you don't want to have thirty-five books laying around the house, but you want as many titles for your kids to read. Enter: The Picture Book Treasury, a compendium of classic and beloved children's books designed to keep children entertained, the bookcase collection handsome, and the house in relatively good order.

There are basically two kinds of picture book treasuries—those which collect the works of a single author, and those which bring together a variety of styles and authors under a common theme. We offer both kinds, though our favorites tend to be the author-specific volumes (we're pretty big fans of Beatrix Potter and Winnie the Pooh).

The downside to treasuries is that they're more difficult to hold, typically being much larger and heavier than ordinary picture books. At the same time, that downside can be a great benefit: bulky books make great foundations for living room forts. And for kiddos, the picture book treasury is a better choice than the Oxford English Dictionary because once inside the fort, what else are they going to do but read by flashlight?

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20th-Century Children's Book Treasury
by Janet Schulman
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$44.99
3 Little Golden Books Classic Collection
from Golden Books
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
75 Years of Children's Book Week Posters
by introduction and text by Leonard S. Marcus
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Absolutely Positively Alexander
by Judith Viorst
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop, retold by Anna Milbourne and illustrated by Linda Edwards
from Usborne
for 1st-5th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Amelia Bedelia Celebration
by Peggy Parish & Herman Parish, Lynn Sweat & Fritz Siebel
from Greenwillow Books
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
by Arnold Lobel
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes (Location: PIC-MG)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Bedtime Stories
by Thornton W. Burgess, illustrated by Carl & Mary Hauge
from Dover Publications
for 1st-5th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Big Book of Nursery Rhymes
Calla Editions
by Charles Robinson
Calla from Dover Publications
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Big Treasury of Little Animals
by Phoebe Dunn
from Random House
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Biscuit Storybook Collection
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
1st edition from HarperFestival
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Child's Book of Stories
by Jessie Willcox Smith (illustrator)
from Dilithium Press, Ltd.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Crystal Pool
by Geraldine McCaughrean
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Enid Blyton Bedtime Story Book
by Enid Blyton; illustrated by Maureen L. Bradley, Lynn N. Grundy, Sally Holmes, Ken Stott
from Treasure Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Family Read-Aloud Holiday Treasury
by Selected by Alice Low, Illustrated by Marc Brown
First Ediition from Little, Brown & Company
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Favourite Tales from Hans Christen Andersen
by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova
from Floris Books
for 4th-6th grade
Fireside Stories
by Veronica S. Hutchinson, illustrated by Lois Lenski
from Minton, Balch & CO.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Fireside Stories
by Veronica S. Hutchinson
from Minton, Balch & CO.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
First Book of Fairy Tales
by Mary Hoffman
from DK Publishing
Fairy Tales for Preschool-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$9.99 $7.00 (1 in stock)
George and Martha
by James Marshall
from HMH Books for Young Readers
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$29.99
George and Martha Rise and Shine
by James Marshall
from HMH Books for Young Readers
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
George and Martha Rise and Shine
by James Marshall
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Golden Books Treasury of Prayers from Around the World
Golden Books Treasury
by Esther Wilkin (selected by), illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
from Golden Books
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Great Children's Stories
from Dover Publications
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Kingfisher Book of Classic Boy Stories
by Michael Morpurgo, editor
1st edition from Kingfisher
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Madeline Treasury
by Ludwig Bemelmans
Reissue from Viking Press
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$35.00
Make Way for McCloskey
by Robert McCloskey
from Viking Press
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$28.99
Margaret Wise Brown Treasury
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Kirsten Richards, Charlotte Cooke, Stephen Gulbis, Henry Fisher, Christine Tappin, Julie Clay, etc.
from Hollins University
for Nursery-1st grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Margaret Wise Brown Treasury
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Kirsten Richards, Charlotte Cooke, Stephen Gulbis, Henry Fisher, Christine Tappin, Julie Clay, etc.
from Parragon Publishing
for Nursery-1st grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Michael Hague's Treasured Classics
by Michael Hague
from Chronicle Books
for 2nd-4th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Mike Mulligan and More
by Virginia Lee Burton
from Houghton Mifflin
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$24.99
My Big Bedtime Book
by H.G.C. Marsh-Lambert
from Derrydale Books
for Nursery-Preschool
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Ann Strugnell
from Addison Wesley
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Platt & Munk Treasury of Stories for Children
by Nancy Christensen Hall, editor
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Princess Stories
A Classic Illustrated Ed, from Chronicle Books
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
Random House Book of Bedtime Stories
by Jane Dyer
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$11.00 (2 in stock)
Random House Book of Fairy Tales
by Various Authors
from Random House
Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 3rd-6th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$22.99
Real Mother Goose
by Blanche Fisher Wright, illustrator
from Rand McNally
Rhyming Books for Preschool-Kindergarten
in Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes (Location: PIC-MG)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Richard Scarry's Mother Goose
by Richard Scarry
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Ring O' Roses Treasury: Nursery Rhymes and Stories
Calla Editions
by L. Leslie Brooke
from Dover Publications
for Nursery-6th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Silver Treasure
by Geraldine McCaughrean
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Starry Tales
by Geraldine McCaughrean, Sophy Williams (Illustrator)
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
Fairy Tales & Fables for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Stories That Never Grow Old
by Watty Piper
from Platt and Munk Publishers
for Nursery-1st grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose
by Iona Opie, Peter Opie
1st edition from Little, Brown & Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Clearance: Picture Books (Location: ZCLE-PIC)
Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book
by Gustaf Tenggren, adapted by Katharine Gibson
from Little, Brown & Company
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
Treasury of Children's Literature
by Armand Eisen
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Treasury of Classic Children's Stories
from Andrews McMeel
for Preschool-4th grade
Treasury of Mother Goose
by Hilda Offfen (Illustrator)
from Simon and Schuster
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes (Location: PIC-MG)
$17.99 $12.00 (2 in stock)
Treasury of Picture Book Classics
by Tegen Katherine
from HarperCollins
for Nursery-1st grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$35.00 $20.00 (1 in stock)
Usborne Five-Minute Bedtime Stories
by Sam Taplin, illustrated by Ag Jatkowska
from Usborne
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
Winnie the Pooh Storybook Collection
by Adapted by Thea Feldman and Catherine Hapka, illustrated by Disney storybook artists
from Disney Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
You Read to Me & I'll Read to You
by Various Authors
1st edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
by Mary Ann Hoberman
1st edition from Little, Brown & Company
for 1st-2nd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$5.50 (1 in stock)
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (Fairy Tales)
by Mary Ann Hoberman, Illustrated by Michael Emberley
from Little, Brown & Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (Fairy Tales)
by Mary Ann Hoberman, Illustrated by Michael Emberley
from Scholastic Inc.
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (Scary Tales)
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You #4
by Mary Ann Hoberman, Illustrated by Michael Emberley
from Little, Brown & Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
$6.00 (2 in stock)