Picture books are the first visual arts experience many students encounter. A picture book equally emphasizes text and illustrations, and though the text often receives most of the attention, in the best cases, the pictures are excellent resources for teaching about creating and responding to images. For a resourceful teacher who knows how to use the library, picture books are an art museum waiting to be explored; a collection of many individual works of art representing a wide range of media and techniques and employing an even wider range of art styles. When they become familiar with the art of picture books, students are comfortable interpreting the images found in them. Here, the author presents an instructional resource recommended for grades 4 to 6 that uses four images from picture books as the basis for studying fairy tales, analyzing images, and writing. All images are from the Mazza Museum: International Art from Picture Books, a teaching museum that exhibits and preserves original art from picture books. With the increased focus on literacy in schools and recent trends in book arts, these lessons present an exciting combination of activities that meet many curriculum standards in both language arts and visual arts. A collaboration involving a visual arts teacher, a language arts teacher, and a librarian is ideal for this study. After completing these activities, students will be able to: (1) Identify elements in an image that contribute to its magical quality; (2) Create short and long descriptive analyses of images from fairy tales; and (3) Write, illustrate, and analyze alternative endings to familiar fairy tales. (Contains 6 resource books.)