HOW TO FIND FLOWER FAIRIES Hardcover - 2007

by Barker, Cicely Mary

Amazing Book 

Coffee Table Book

Just Fabulously Magical Book

Children, the knowledge that I am passing to you is preciousand must be carefully guarded'After centuries of being hidden from human sight, the Flower Fairiesallowed Cicely Mary Barker a glimpse into their enchanted fairy worldin Fairyopolis. Now you can continue the adventure with this spectacularnew novelty book where every page unlocks the secrets behind themagical places the fairies call home. Five eye-popping spreads includeintricate three-dimensional pop-up images of flowers and trees thatmagically open up to reveal the secret homes of the fairies. Lift-the-flaps, booklets, maps and other ephemera provide interactive fun onevery page leading up to a stunning surprise on the final spread.

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.