Wild Flower Children

by Elizabeth Gordon

Book Overview

Excerpt from Wild Flower Children: The Little Playmates of the Fairies But no matter where you go, across the sands of the desert, or to the tops of the tallest mountain peaks, there are always wild... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517163608
• ISBN13: 9780517163603
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Derrydale Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Flower Children - Nature Sprites of a Bygone Day

Originally published in 1918, this beautiful picture book is filled with sweet little flower children that look a lot like fairies but of course they are only "playmates of the fairies" so they don't always have wings. They are dressed in the most charming Victorian costumes including lace petticoats, bonnets, pinnafores, spats, and waistcoats. Each one represents a wild flower, rendered in satisfying detail by this talented illustrator and accompanied by a nostalgic little poem. The flowers are identified by their Latin names as well as their often quaint and colorful folk names such as Frostweed, Virgin's Bower, Pearly Everlasting, Baby Blue Eyes and Gold Thread. I love this book and the other three by the same writer, Bird Children, Flower Children, and Mother Earth's Children. I'm so glad they are back in print and I know they will delight anyone who believes in fairies.