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 Devotees
of the little Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairies books will welcome
these editions with reproductions made from new transparencies of
Barker's original flower fairy watercolors. This collection brings
together some of Cicely Barker's most popular flower fairy illustrations
and their accompanying poems. The poems are sentimental; the illustrations
of flowers and trees are botanically accurate; and the flower fairies,
delicate and enchanting in a volume sure to please lovers of the
fae.
The
Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
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Where
are the flower fairies?
Where can we find them?
We've seen the fairy rings they leave behind them!
When they have danced all night, where do they go?
Lark, in the sky above, say, do you know?
Is it a secret no-one is telling?
Why, in your garden surely they're dwelling!
No need for journeying, seeking afar:
Where there are flowers, there fairies are!
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Each of Barker's four seasonal Flower Fairy books features
poems and full-color illustrations of at least 19 flowers
that bloom during a particular season.
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 How
to Be a Flower Fairy
This
24-page fairy book and kit offers a lavishly illustrated text
perfect for little flower fairies. There are flower fairy
songs to sing, a flower fairy dance to learn and visit to
the flower fairies market. And so each child can pretend she's
a flower fairy, inside the book are instructions and materials
for making a fairy crown, petal skirt, necklace and bracelet.
Perhaps best of all, fairy dust, a fairy purse and even fairy
wings to strap on her back are included in a pocket in the
back. There's everything children will need to make their
flower fairy transformation complete.
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 Cicely
Mary Barker published her lovely flower fairy books starting
with "Flower Fairies of the Spring" in 1923. Each little fairy
was inspired by flowers of her native home, England. Barker's
attention to the detail of each flower, fanciful flower fairies
and poems have made her books and illustrations popular long
after her death in 1973. It was the Flower Fairies books that
brought Cicely Mary Barker her greatest popular acclaim. Like
the Pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so much admired, she
believed in recreating the beauty of nature in art and in
drawing from life. Her plants and garden flowers are observed
with compete botanical accuracy and in the flower fairies
themselves she perfectly captured the unselfconscious grace
of young children.
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