Amazon.com description: Product Description: This complete collection of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies features a stunning new cover. Perfect for fans of the Flower Fairies old and new this wonderful collection includes all the original Flower Fairy poems and illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker from the classic books. Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to girls and women around the world ever since the publication of Cicely's first book in 1923. The magical illustrations have inspired generations of children to search for fairies at the bottom of their gardens. There is something delightfully charming about the delicate, childlike fairies of Cicely's imagination. Once seen, they are never forgotten. Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. She found international acclaim as an artist with her delightful Flower Fairies books the first of which, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was printed in 1923.