The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies

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		The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
		The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies

This complete collection of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies features a brand-new enchanting cover.

Perfect for fans of all ages, this wonderful collection includes all the original Flower Fairy poems and illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker from the classic books.

Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker's first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to generations of readers around the world. Her charming poetry and delicate illustrations have sparked the imaginations of children for over ninety years and continue to inspire a life-long love for fairies and all things magical.

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.

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If this were the only edition of the 'flower fairies' books I had ever seen, I'd be as enthusiastic as other reviewers here. But that's just it - as publishers (Blackie and later Warner) made their various editorial decisions about cropping and omitting fairies from their different editions, they never saw fit to warn the reader about it, so a new reader has no way of knowing. I find that very unsatisfactory.

If you go to 'flowerfairyprints.com' you'll find a full list of the fairies that belonged originally to each volume, and see just how much has been lost here. It didn't start with Warne, this habit of omitting etc, but it's certainly continued by them. So: a number of fairies are missing from the summer collection and the wayside collection, and the fairies of the alphabet collection have been cropped a lot in some cases to fit in a smaller space - as marginal illustrations instead of full-page (e.g. 'King cup' picture has only one elf instead of two).

I don't understand why Warne has not chosen to bring out an edition that has ALL the fairies in the good-quality reproductions they know how to do (see their 'Deluxe' volume, which has almost all the missing fairies' pictures, only 'goose-grass getting no mention at all, but by no means all the poems). As it is, if you want ALL pictures and poems in one book, and can't afford the first edition - which is v expensive to acquire, but I assume has them all) you have to buy editions of the '60s and 70s - before the 1985 Blackie edns (the '85 Blackie edn of 'summer' has a lot of omissions..I don't know about the others) These earlier edns do have ALL pictures and poems but have cropped the pictures somewhat anyway at the edges, and don't have such good-quality reproductions (in my opinion) as these latest ones by Warne.

If it doesn't bother you to miss out on some fairies, then by all means buy this volume. But for those of us who have known them all as children, it's upsetting to see some of them exiled and forgotten! I wonder what Ms Barker herself would have felt about the industry that has been made out of her work, with so little respect for the integrity of the whole.

This book is a compilation of CM Barker's fairy works. 187 colored pages complete with rhymes about the individual flowers and each fairy that depicts them. What lovely work she did.

I wanted it because my granddaughter has taken an interest in fairies and my other granddaughter in art, any myself in creating costumes. Many of my costumes will be done for Fairy Day at the Renaissance Faire. What better place to research costumes for such an event. so many many creative ideas are here. So this book serves a threefold interest for our family.

If you have any interest in the fairies this would be a wonderful volume to have in your treasury.

I just love this book.

My mother bought this for my granddaughter who loves fairies. The only problem is that this book has all of Cicely Mary Barker's stories in it so is rather heavy for a three-year old. She bought this along with the set of sparkly stickers which went over very well.

A gift for my Mom & This Sweet Book is More than Expected the Size of Book & Illustrations are Beautiful ! Nice Book for Everyone ! of All Ages ! A Nice Size for your Coffee Table & is where my Mom has it & is now my Mom Fav Fairy Book & she has Many ! had a Love of Fairys since her Childhood during World War 11 Mom was one of Thousands of Children Evactuated to Northern England The London Blitz she was 5 & Mom Foster Parents bought my Mom a Fairy Figurine Mom still has She has said her little Fairy went with her to many Foster Parents for 6 Yrs World War 11 & her Little Fairy is what Helped her always

I saw my first Cicely Mary Barker book of fairies 40 years ago when I became enchanted with the illustrations and purchased the miniature set for my toddler daughter. They were loved, literally, to death. When I saw this compilation, I knew I had to reaquaint myself with these magical boy and girl fairies. The illustrations are charming and lively and the flowers and trees that make up the backgrounds are detailed and magical in themselves. The illustrations in this particular book are cropped to focus on each fairy child, but enough of each background is included that the viewer won't feel like they are missing a thing. I will now have to go back and collect all of the full picture books because I know they will delight and inspire.

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