diff --git a/cranelift/Cargo.toml b/cranelift/Cargo.toml
index b8acb84d62..4a28857088 100644
--- a/cranelift/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cranelift/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ cretonne-frontend = { path = "lib/frontend", version = "0.4.4" }
 cretonne-wasm = { path = "lib/wasm", version = "0.4.4" }
 cretonne-native = { path = "lib/native", version = "0.4.4" }
 cretonne-filetests = { path = "lib/filetests", version = "0.4.4" }
+cretonne = { path = "lib/umbrella", version = "0.4.4" }
 filecheck = "0.2.1"
 docopt = "0.8.0"
 serde = "1.0.8"
diff --git a/cranelift/publish-all.sh b/cranelift/publish-all.sh
index 27d507f8b4..108d8055c2 100755
--- a/cranelift/publish-all.sh
+++ b/cranelift/publish-all.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ cargo update
 
 echo git commit -a -m "\"Bump version to $version"\"
 echo git push
-for crate in entity codegen frontend native reader wasm ; do
+for crate in entity codegen frontend native reader wasm umbrella ; do
+    if [ "$crate" == "umbrella" ]; then
+        dir="cretonne"
+    else
+        dir="$crate"
+    fi
+
     echo cargo publish --manifest-path "lib/$crate/Cargo.toml"
 done
 echo
diff --git a/lib/umbrella/Cargo.toml b/lib/umbrella/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d1f7f95786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/umbrella/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[package]
+authors = ["The Cretonne Project Developers"]
+name = "cretonne"
+version = "0.4.4"
+description = "Umbrella for commonly-used cretonne crates"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+documentation = "https://cretonne.readthedocs.io/"
+repository = "https://github.com/cretonne/cretonne"
+readme = "README.md"
+keywords = ["compile", "compiler", "jit"]
+
+[dependencies]
+cretonne-codegen = { path = "../codegen", version = "0.4.4" }
+cretonne-frontend = { path = "../frontend", version = "0.4.4" }
+
+[badges]
+maintenance = { status = "experimental" }
+travis-ci = { repository = "cretonne/cretonne" }
diff --git a/lib/umbrella/README.md b/lib/umbrella/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9c2ee3fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/umbrella/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+This is an umbrella crate which contains no code of its own, but pulls in
+other cretonne library crates to provide a convenient one-line dependency
+for common use cases.
diff --git a/lib/umbrella/src/lib.rs b/lib/umbrella/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a70a97e86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/umbrella/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+//! Cretonne umbrella crate, providing a convenient one-line dependency.
+
+#![deny(missing_docs, trivial_numeric_casts, unused_extern_crates)]
+#![cfg_attr(feature = "clippy", plugin(clippy(conf_file = "../../clippy.toml")))]
+
+pub extern crate cretonne_codegen;
+pub extern crate cretonne_frontend;
+
+/// A prelude providing convenient access to commonly-used cretonne features. Use
+/// as `use cretonne::prelude::*`.
+pub mod prelude {
+    pub use cretonne_codegen;
+    pub use cretonne_codegen::entity::EntityRef;
+    pub use cretonne_codegen::ir::{AbiParam, InstBuilder, Value, Ebb, Signature, CallConv};
+    pub use cretonne_codegen::ir::types;
+    pub use cretonne_codegen::ir::condcodes::IntCC;
+
+    pub use cretonne_frontend::{FunctionBuilderContext, FunctionBuilder, Variable};
+}