My Garden of Flower Fairies [Hardcover]

Cicely Mary Barker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 2004 | Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Flower Fairies

In a large garden live the Flower Fairies and their many friends.  There's mischievous Periwinkle, shy Daffodil, Poppy, who likes to give parties for Flower Fairy children, and Marigold, who loves the sun.  Seventeen fairies in all are featured in this book that's chock full of the details young readers and listeners love to know about the Flower Fairies and their secret lives.

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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.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Warne (March 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723249261
• ISBN-13: 978-0723249269
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 11 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #708,169 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Our girls LOVE this fairy book, January 27, 2006

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Julie - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Garden of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

The illustrations are really nice. Beautiful. Our 3 preschool daughers are very into fairies right now and they LOVE this book. They love the stories associated with all the flowers. Part of me would think the book would be a bit old for them, but not at all. They love it and want to read it over and over and over.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enhanced pictures, cute text, December 15, 2004

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Sonja Harken "useyourlibrary" (West Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Garden of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

My 5-year old enjoyed this introduction to the flower fairy friends. It takes the lovely drawings of Cicely Mary Barker and places them with photographs of flowers, and combines them in different ways. It is neatly done. The text describes the different fairies and what their personalities are like. It is sweet but uninspired. We're looking forward to reading others id the Flower Fairy Friends series.