How To Be a Flower Fairy (Flower Fairies) [Hardcover]

Cicely Mary Barker (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Flower Fairies

For every little girl who likes to dress up and enter the world of her imagination, this 24-page book and kit offers a very special treat. The lavishly illustrated text includes flower fairy songs to sing, magic spells, a visit to the Fairy Market, and a dance to learn. And so each child can pretend she's a flower fairy, inside the book are instructions and materials for making a fairy crown, petal skirt, necklace and bracelet. Perhaps best of all, special glitter, a fairy purse and even wings to strap on her back are included in a pocket in the back. That's everything she'll need to make her flower fairy transformation complete!

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Warne (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723246408
• ISBN-13: 978-0723246404
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,302,181 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

4.0 out of 5 stars Make Little Girl Giggle With Glee, April 16, 2011

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Shannon M. Mcgee "Confuzzled Books" (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to be a Flower Fairy (reissue) (Flower Fairies) (Hardcover)

In many ways this reminds me of a mini version of the Fairyopolis books that came out with the pop up, lift the tabs and pixie dust. References fairies and there nature. This book is like that but smaller and has a tiny pair of wings for a youngin'

There are little poems about the fairies that are based on the illustrations of Cicely Mary Barker and there are notes and cute lite popups to make a girl giggle with glee.

Although I got the book through a swap it was missing some things like how to make invisible ink which I thought sounded cool! Very cute book and wings that would make a little girl feel like a flower fairy.

5.0 out of 5 stars how to be a Flower Fairy, September 17, 2009

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Georgette Spinelli "Rose" (Adams, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to be a Flower Fairy (reissue) (Flower Fairies) (Hardcover)

What an exciting book for 3-6 year olds. The magically hidden pockets within the book make the fairies come alive. Follow the instructions and complete the tasks to become a full fledged flower fairy who can sprinkle magic in the garden and sleep soundly with lavender scent hidden under the pillow. This book inspires one to research the rest of the series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Flower Fairy Fun, December 12, 2006

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Debra L. Murray-Worley (Livonia, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to be a Flower Fairy (reissue) (Flower Fairies) (Hardcover)

Here is a book, filled with fun fairy accessories and ideas, from fairy glitter to fairy wings, ready for takeoff.