The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies

Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies books, published in the first half of this century, are known and loved around the world. They were created by a quiet, unassuming and dedicated artist, who was nevertheless remarkably successful, spending her life illustrating many children's books and selling hundreds of watercolours and pasteles. Today, almost thirty years after her death, her work continues to offer delights that have stood the test oft time.

The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies brings together in one volume all the Flower Fairies illustrations and poems that are currently in print in separate books. It offers a nostalgic glimpse into the Romantic Age, each illustration suggesting that beyond the natural world so truthfully depicted in her paintings, there might co-exist another, usually invisible, world of the fairies.

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Where?


Where are the fairies?
Where can we find them?
We've seen the fairies-rings
They leave behind them!

When they have danced all night,
Where do they go?
Lark, in the sky above,
Say, do you know?

Is it a secret
No one is telling?
Why, in your garden
Surely they're dwelling!

No need for journeying,
Seeking afar:
Where there are flowers,
There fairies are!

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