Flower Fairies of the Seasons [Hardcover]

Mary Cicely Barker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1984

Illustrations depict fairy folk among the seasonal flowers described in the accompanying poems.

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Almond Blossom
Beechnut
Bird's-foot Trefoil
Blackberry
Blackthorn
Box Tree
Cherry Tree
Christmas Tree
Crab-apple
Crocus
Elderberry
Harebell
Hawthorn
Hazel-nut
Holly
Horse Chestnut
Lilac
Mountain Ash
Narcissus
Old-man's-beard
Pear Blossom
Periwinkle
Pine Tree
Plane Tree
Polyanthus And Grape Hyacinth
Poppy
Rose Hip
Scilla
Sloe
Snowdrop
Traveller's Joy
Tulip
White Bryony
White Clover
Wild Cherry Blossom
Wild Rose
Willow
Winter Aconite
Winter Jasmine
Yarrow
Notes From A Child Of Paradise (complete)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0911745483
• ISBN-13: 978-0911745481
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,821,508 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.