Experience the beauty and the magic of Cicely Mary Barker's famous Flower Fairies, with a rejacketed edition of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Winter. The magic and loveliness of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies is being reissued with an updated, contemporary look that is a perfect gift for Flower Fairies fans and a new generation of readers. First published in the 1920s, Cicely Mary Barker's original Flower Fairies books have been loved for generations. The book features poems and full-color illustrations of over 20 flowers and their guardian fairies. About the Author: 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.