Blossoming this spring is a bouquet of book collections for young readers. Bringing together short stories, volumes of Harry Potter apocrypha, and even coloring books, the volumes gathered here all share one thing in common: they contain multitudes.
Gossie & Friends: Big Book of Adventures
The first bind-up of Dunrea’s early reader series starring a gaggle of gosling friends includes Gossie; Gossie and Gertie; Ollie; Ollie the Stomper; Peedie; BooBoo; Gideon; Gideon and Otto; and Jasper and Joop.
Hogwarts Library
This three-volume collection for patrons of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry features redesigned editions of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Quidditch Through the Ages; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Rowling is donating 20% of proceeds from this set to the Lumos and Comic Relief charities.
5-Minute Biscuit Stories
This volume features 12 stories about the little yellow dog, expanded from early readers into five-minute-long stories suitable for read-alouds.
An Elephant & Piggie Biggie!
The first compendium featuring the Geisel Award-winning friends includes the titles Today I Will Fly!; Watch Me Throw the Ball!; Can I Play Too?; Let’s Go For a Drive!; and I Really Like Slop!
Trio of Tolerable Tales
Three humorous stories by Atwood – Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, and Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery – are now combined in a single illustrated chapter book.
Where’s Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection and Where’s Waldo? The Coloring Collection
Candlewick collects seven of the elusive wanderer’s location-specific titles in the first volume, and a series of coloring books in the latter.