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For all my love of fairy-lore, this is the first Cicely Mary Barker book I've got my hands on. The illustrations are wonderful, and I can stare at them for hours just thumbing through the book. Which is lucky, 'cause the poems to go with the illustrations are entirely forgettable.

The coolest thing about this book, though, it that it's actually functional as a field guide to garden trees. The illustrations show leaves and flowers or seeds for each tree, and it has a guide to scientific names in the front. I've been looking for a good, small book of non-native ornamentals for awhile, and I'd've picked it up just for that! (

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melannen | Dec 13, 2008 |

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Flower Fairies [Original Series] (5)

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Flower Fairies of the Trees

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1940

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0723237603, Hardcover)

Frederick Warne is pleased to announce brand-new editions of the 8 classic Flower Fairies titles, with all of Barker's original artwork and poetry included. These works offer a nostalgic look into the Romantic Age, each illustration suggesting that beyond the natural world so truthfully depicted in Barker's paintings there might co-exist another, just barely visible, world of the fairies.

These four titles (Flower Fairies of the Trees, Flower Fairies of the Garden, Flower Fairies of the Wayside, and A Flower Fairy Alphabet) complete the original collection of Barker's Flower Fairies books. Each book features Barker's poems and full-color illustrations of at least 19 different Flower Fairies.

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