A 75th anniversary edition of the author's collection of illustrations and poems evoking a flowery fairy world. Also included is a biography of the artist, an historical timeline and a selection of songs.
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The book for true Flower Fairies lovers,
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This review is from: Flower Fairies of the Springtime: A Celebration (Flower Fairies Collection) (Hardcover)
I was somewhat disappointed in this book. It contains all of the material from "Flower Fairies of the Spring" and a condensed version of the Cicely Barker biography. The only new material is 2 flower fairies who were apparently cut from the modern edition of "F. F. of the Spring." So, I would recommend this book only for those who collect all CMB books.
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