Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)

This book has been a part of my life since I was a young girl, and I have shared it with my own daughter. As a child, this book inspired me as well as my brother to explore the earth around us with rose-colored glasses. We saw a magical yard after reading this book and would read this book together over and over for instructions and details on finding fairies for years. The illustrations and interactive pages created a fantasy world for us and are now creating that world for my daughter. I would recommend this book to any child or adult. It contains illustrations for the smallest children to the oldest. If showing this book to a child younger than five, I would protect the pages and cover; however, the book is soft and will not harm the child. The child may or may not accidentally harm the book. There is writing that adults may even find interesting. This book will always be one of my favorites.… (mehr)