A Treasury of Flower Fairies [Hardcover]

Cicely Mary Barker (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Flower Fairies

This treasury contains a selection of some of the Flower Fairies illustrations from all of the eight original books, together with their informative poems. The enlarged format of the illustrations are reproduced from the recently reoriginated printing plates.

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About the Author

Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. She found international acclaim as an artist with her delightful Flower Fairies books the first of which, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was printed in 1923. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Warne (May 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723237964
• ISBN-13: 978-0723237969
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,120,221 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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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enchanting picture book., August 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: A Treasury of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

The book contains reproductions of a collection of Cicely Mary Barker's watercolors of flower fairies. Each watercolor is a picture of a child or two represented as fairies of a particular flower. The flowers are beautifully rendered, and the fairy children are dressed in garments that resemble their own flowers. Each picture is accompanied by a poem. Ms. Barker used the children who attended her sister's kindergarten as models with the result that the children are charmingly drawn but perhaps a trifle too realistically for depictions of fairies. Still, it is a delightful book.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Faery Picture Book, December 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: A Treasury of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

This is an adorable, colorfull, enchanting picture book I reccomend to any child, or person young at heart. It has adorable painted pictures of flower faeries, that own certain types of flowers or trees. Then it has a cute poem to it. But I do not reccomend this book to those who are very serious about learning about faeries, or want to see real faery photos.

The Dew Drop Fae Believer