The World of Flower Fairies [Hardcover]

Cicely Mary Barker (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Flower Fairies

Using as models the children who attended her sister's kindergarten, Cicely Mary Barker's drawings brought her international acclaim as an artist. "The Flower Fairies" first appeared in 1923 and this treasury contains a selection of some of the best known illustrations together with poems.

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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 out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Warne (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723240027
• ISBN-13: 978-0723240020
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,854,503 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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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely picture book., August 5, 1997

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This review is from: The World 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. Also, see Ms. Barker's Treasury of Flower Fairies for a companion book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Plates but Incomplete, November 10, 2001

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Laurel (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The World of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

This is a beautiful book with large, beautiful plates on thick glossy paper. Each flower fairy is accompanied by its poem. However, it may not have all of your favorite fairies. For example, it does not have the Lavender Flower Fairy or the Apple Blommom Fairy, two of my favorites. However, it does have 60 flower fairies. I could not wait a minute to own it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sixty Flower Fairies Enlarged, April 19, 2010

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G. Barrell "treasure the kids" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World of Flower Fairies (Hardcover)

I have How to Find Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker and have given this same book and also Fairyopolis and Return to Fairyopolis to my eleven year old granddaughter. Ms. Barker's drawings of the fairies fascinated me and it naturally lead me to seek a book with larger drawings of the fairy children. I found that in A World of Flower Fairies. Sixty flower fairies are illustrated in color in individual 4 1/2" by 6 1/4" frames or blocks accompanied by a poem on the opposite page. What a delight to see the larger images of the innocent young children as well as the beauty of flowers and foliage in nature. From reading the poem and looking at the accurate depiction of the flower and leaves, you learn something about the plant. From looking at the fairies, you are truly fascinated by the talent of Ms. Barker. I am in awe of the realistic rendering and capturing of the sweetness of children. The faces, arms, legs, and bodies are "perfect." The clothes they are wearing are so befitting and clever and blend in with the flower. The wings are almost indescribable for their shape, color, and form. This is a very beautiful book, just like the previously mentioned Barker books. The book is smaller though measuring 7 1/2" by 10," however the fairies are much larger. If you want to see larger fairies in detail, then this is a good book to get.