This beautiful treasury contains a selection of some of the best-loved Flower Fairies illustrations together with their informative poems. The enlarged format of the watercolour illustrations are... This description may be from another edition of this product.
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.
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