Four Seasons of Flower Fairies: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Flower Fairies) [Hardcover]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Warne; Gift edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723251819
• ISBN-13: 978-0723251811
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,799,978 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely beautiful!, November 11, 2009

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This review is from: Four Seasons of Flower Fairies: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Flower Fairies) (Hardcover)

Cicely Mary Barker is one of my very favorite writers and illustrators. What a gift she has given us with the flower fairy books! My children (and myself) all love these books. We read them over and over again. The books are not only absolutely beautiful...they are very educational, teaching children about all kinds of flowers, herbs and plants. I have bought every "flower fairy" thing I can get my hands on (from tea sets to watercolor paints...) I highly recommend these books and everything by Cicely Mary Barker. A sure delight!