Cicely Mary Barker's magical Flower Fairies illustrations offer the perfect background for recording all of baby's milestones and accomplishments during that eventful first year. Decorated with Barker's sumptuous illustrations, each detailed page is filled with bright, beautiful artwork. Lavishly finished with a padded cover and ribbon tie, this baby book is an ideal gift for new or expecting parents. The pages contain generous room for personal thoughts, photographs, and mementos along with space for noting the basics. Every baby's "firsts" should be recorded--this baby book is a unique and charming journal in which to do so.

This beautiful note book, scented with the sweet smell of heliotrope and decorated with Flower Fairies, is the perfect place to record special thoughts.

In a large garden live the Flower Fairies and their many friends. There's mischievous Periwinkle, shy Daffodil, Poppy, who likes to give parties for Flower Fairy children, and Marigold, who loves the sun. Seventeen fairies in all are featured in this book that's chock full of the details young readers and listeners love to know about the Flower Fairies and their secret lives.

The Song of The Almond Blossom Fairy Joy! the Winter's nearly gone! Soon will Spring come dancing on; And, before her, here dance I, Pink like sunrise in the sky. Other lovely things will follow; Soon will cuckoo come, and swallow; Birds will sing and buds will burst, But the Almond is the first!

Using clever disguises, fairies live and hide in treetops, forests, gardens, marshes, and hedgerows.

Illus. dictionary on the meaning of flowers compiled using popular superstitions and ancient folklore. Col. illus. 8-12 yrs.