The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter without the illustrations? Heresy! What were they thinking? I think of the Beatrix Potter books as the perfect integration of illustration and text. Having one without the other just doesn't cut it. And the book itself is an expanse of white with black print. There is no explanation of why it contains just the text for all her books. It totally drains the life out of her stories. Bad, bad, bad idea!