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

By Olivier Dunrea (HMH, Jan. 10, 2017, hardcover, $15.99, ISBN 978-0-544-77980-8)

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

By J.K. Rowling (Scholastic/Levine, Mar. 14, boxed set, $38.97, ISBN 978-1-338-13232-8)

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

By Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illus. by Pat Schories (HarperCollins, May 2, hardcover, $12.99, ISBN 978-0-06-256725-3)

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!

By Mo Willems (Hyperion, May 2, hardcover, $16.99, ISBN 978-1-4847-9967-3)

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

By Margaret Atwood, illus. by Dušan Petričić (Groundwood, May 16, hardcover, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-55498-933-1)

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

By Martin Handford (Candlewick, May 16, paperback, $14.99, ISBN 978-0-7636-9580-4; and 978-0-7636-9577-4)

Candlewick collects seven of the elusive wanderer’s location-specific titles in the first volume, and a series of coloring books in the latter.