Buttercup Goes to the Ball (Flower Fairies) [Hardcover]

Cicely Mary Barker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 2003 | Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Flower Fairies

Every night, when a plant has reached full bloom, a Flower Fairy is born. Now for every girl who ever wondered about the Flower Fairies-or imagined what it might be like to be one-here are two little books about two special fairies. Perfect for introducing the youngest readers and listeners to the magical world created by Cicely Mary Barker.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Flower Fairies Friends is a new publishing programme specially designed to encourage young girls to use their imaginations and create their own fairy world. They are taken into the unique world of the Flower Fairies through Cicely Mary Barker's beautiful watercolours combined with natural objects. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Warne (June 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723248982
• ISBN-13: 978-0723248989
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,714,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, South London, and spent most of her life there. Because of ill-health she was educated at home and largely taught herself to draw and paint, encouraged by a supportive family and assisted by membership of the Croydon Art Society. She was only sixteen when she had her first work accepted for publication as a set of postcards, and from that time she devoted her career to painting. It was her 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 flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and in the fairies themselves she captured perfectly the unselfconscious grace of children, whom she used to sketch in her sister's school.