[.ca] World Of Flower Fairies (ISBN 0723248885)

Beautiful Plates but Incomplete:
This is a beautiful book with large, beautiful plates on thick glossy paper. Each flower fairy is accompanied by its poem. However, it may not have all of your favorite fairies. For example, it does not have the Lavender Flower Fairy or the Apple Blommom Fairy, two of my favorites. However, it does have 60 flower fairies. I could not wait a minute to own it.

A lovely picture book.:
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.