And Flower Fairies! I used to get the books out of the library when I was ill, trace all the fairies, colour them in, cut them out and put them on coloured wool for my sisters to hang from their bookshelves.
That is a really lovely thing to have done for siblings. (Older or younger sisters?) Do any of your versions still survive?
I'm feeling guiltily unsure I ever bothered to really read the poems.
To be fair, I think few of the poems are as memorable as the illustrations. I remembered nothing of the ones that accompanied my favorite fairies until I looked them up last night.
(Hmm, I remember one from Wayside, but I can't remember which fairy. I must have read some of them!)
Here are the fairies from that book, if it helps. There are a ton on that website that I hadn't seen. I had only the one book, and I'm guessing now it was an anthology of previously published seasons. It did teach me about several plants that were not common where I lived, or at least not under those names.
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And Flower Fairies! I used to get the books out of the library when I was ill, trace all the fairies, colour them in, cut them out and put them on coloured wool for my sisters to hang from their bookshelves.
That is a really lovely thing to have done for siblings. (Older or younger sisters?) Do any of your versions still survive?
I'm feeling guiltily unsure I ever bothered to really read the poems.
To be fair, I think few of the poems are as memorable as the illustrations. I remembered nothing of the ones that accompanied my favorite fairies until I looked them up last night.
(Hmm, I remember one from Wayside, but I can't remember which fairy. I must have read some of them!)
Here are the fairies from that book, if it helps. There are a ton on that website that I hadn't seen. I had only the one book, and I'm guessing now it was an anthology of previously published seasons. It did teach me about several plants that were not common where I lived, or at least not under those names.