The Treasure Collector
A funny, quirky tale of friendship and values featuring a remarkable and evolving friendship between a racoon and a starfish

Every night, Reginald goes on the hunt. He loves stuff. All kinds of stuff. To us, it might look like junk, but to Reginald, it's treasure! His most valued treasure of all is a label maker—how else is he supposed to identify each item in his collection?

And then one night, Reginald finds something very strange. It feels squishy and strong at the same time. It’s not a toy. It’s not a cookie. (BLEH! Definitely not a cookie.) It must be junk. But is it? When the label maker stops working, Reginal discovers that some things aren’t things—they might even be friends—and sometimes what we think is junk turns out to be incredibly valuable.
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The Treasure Collector
A funny, quirky tale of friendship and values featuring a remarkable and evolving friendship between a racoon and a starfish

Every night, Reginald goes on the hunt. He loves stuff. All kinds of stuff. To us, it might look like junk, but to Reginald, it's treasure! His most valued treasure of all is a label maker—how else is he supposed to identify each item in his collection?

And then one night, Reginald finds something very strange. It feels squishy and strong at the same time. It’s not a toy. It’s not a cookie. (BLEH! Definitely not a cookie.) It must be junk. But is it? When the label maker stops working, Reginal discovers that some things aren’t things—they might even be friends—and sometimes what we think is junk turns out to be incredibly valuable.
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A funny, quirky tale of friendship and values featuring a remarkable and evolving friendship between a racoon and a starfish

Every night, Reginald goes on the hunt. He loves stuff. All kinds of stuff. To us, it might look like junk, but to Reginald, it's treasure! His most valued treasure of all is a label maker—how else is he supposed to identify each item in his collection?

And then one night, Reginald finds something very strange. It feels squishy and strong at the same time. It’s not a toy. It’s not a cookie. (BLEH! Definitely not a cookie.) It must be junk. But is it? When the label maker stops working, Reginal discovers that some things aren’t things—they might even be friends—and sometimes what we think is junk turns out to be incredibly valuable.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682635834
Publisher: Holiday House
Publication date: 05/06/2025
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

David Zeltser is the author of several picture and chapter books. He and his family emigrated from the former Soviet Union when he was five. Thanks in part to public housing and financial aid programs, he eventually went to Harvard College and majored in physics. Later, after working with various types of wild animals, he was admitted to UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. In the end, he skipped vet school to pursue writing full-time. Years afterward, he and his friend Julia Chiapella co-founded a free after-school writing center for kids at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California, where David and his family reside.

Benjamin Arthur is an award-winning freelance illustrator and animator. His clients have included Chronicle Books, W. W. Norton, TED, NPR, Radiolab, Freakonomics, and the movie Fruitvale. He has lectured for the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and won the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award. Ben’s animations have gone viral and garnered millions of views on YouTube and Vimeo. The Treasure Collector is his first picture book.
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