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Lädt ... Flower Fairies of the Wayside (Original 1948; 1991. Auflage)von Cicely Mary Barker
Werk-InformationenFlower fairies am Wegrand von Cicely Mary Barker (1948)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This beautiful classic is a pleasure to read. ( ) Even though the more complex fairies of Brian Frout, Arthur Packham, and Charles Vess are my favourite there's an intrinsic innocent charm to Cicely Mary Barker's flower-inspired fairies. Each fairy's design is drawn from the flowers of England, in this case specifically wayside flora, so Barker's fairies retain a realism that many of the other artists bypass entirely. Sure, fairies are creatures of myth and legend, but they have one foot in the real world, so having an essence of the recognizable human world allows readers to imagine their reality. Considering that Barker was writing and drawing during the mid-1900s, I was surprised how much of a Victorian sensibility she retained. The delicate costumes especially harken back to this era, when there was a veritable boom in children's illustrated books led by Kate Greenaway who featured children (and their costumes) prominently in her illustrations. Quite a few of the boy fairies remind me of hte puckish character of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, as well, who is the most prominent of the late-Victorian fairytale characters. The roguish (but still childlike) expression in the eyes of hte Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon fairy (aptly named as well), the marching agromony fairies, and the white bindweed fairy could be easily transformed into Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, and Wendy Darling respectively! I may have started off late in Cicely Mary Barker's set of illustrations, but the wayside was a wonderful entry point into exploring her world of flower fairies. Unlike the other flower fairy books I have, Flower Fairies of the Wayside has a foreword by the author. I enjoyed her parenthetical comments about the origin of a flower's name and/or other names it's known by underneath some of the otherwise so-so poems. These are the fairies that appear in this book, in alphabetical order: Agrimony Fairies Bee Orchis Fairy Black Medick Fairies Chicory Fairy Fumitory Fairy (show all 19 items) Greater Celandine Fairy Ground Ivy Fairy Horned Poppy Fairy Jack-by-the-hedge Fairy Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon Fairy Red Campion Fairy Red Clover Fairy Ribwort Plantain Fairy Rose-Bay Willow-Herb Fairy Self-Heal Fairy Sow Thistle Fairy Stork's-Bill Fairy Tansy Fairy White Bindweed Fairy Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The author celebrates fairies and spring flowers in her poems and pictures. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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