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MOTHER GOOSE'S ATTIC - Vintage Children's Books

 

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Cicely Mary Barker

 

Creator of the lovely Flower Fairies and series of books, which showed children portraying various sorts of flowers. She died in 1973, aged 78 .

Her most sought after volume is "The Book of Fairies" which is a compilation of her previous three books and was published by Blackie in 1927.

Books that she illustrated incude:

Flower Fairies of the Spring, London, Blackie, 1923, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Spring Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1923.
Flower Fairies of the Summer, London, Blackie, 1925, Frederick Warne, 1985.
Westcott, M. K.., Child Thoughts in Picture and Verse, London, Blackie, 1925.
Flower Fairies of the Autumn, London, Blackie, 1926, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Summer Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1926.
The Book of the Flower Fairies, London, Blackie, 1927.
Autumn Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1927.
Old Rhymes for All Times. London, Blackie, 1928.
The Children’s Book of Hymns, London, Blackie, 1929.
Barker, Dorothy, Our Darling’s First Book, London, Blackie, 1929.
Beautiful Bible Pictures, 1932.
The Little Picture Hymn Book, London, Blackie, 1933.
Rhymes New and Old, London, Blackie, 1933.
A Flower Fairy Alphabet, London, Blackie, 1934.
A Little Book of Old Rhymes, London, Blackie, 1936.
Barker, Dorothy, He Leadeth Me, London, Blackie, 1936.
A Little Book of Rhymes New and Old, London, Blackie, 1937.
The Lord of the Rushie River, London, Blackie, 1938, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Flower Fairies of the Trees, London, Blackie, 1940, Frederick Warne, 1990.
When Spring Came In at the Window, London, Blackie, 1942.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child’s Garden of Verses, London, Blackie, 1944.
Flower Fairies of the Garden, London, Blackie, 1944, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Groundsel and Necklaces, London, Blackie, 1946, published as Fairy Necklaces, Frederick Warne, 1991.
Flower Fairies of the Wayside, London, Blackie, 1948, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Flower Fairies of the Flowers and Trees, London, Blackie, 1950.
Lively Stories, Macmillan, 1954.
The Flower Fairy Picture Book, London, Blackie, 1955.
Lively Numbers, Macmillan, 1957.
Lively, Words, Macmillan, 1961.
The Sand, the Sea and the Sun, Gibson, 1970.
Flower Fairies of the Winter, London, Blackie, 1985, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Simon the Swan, London, Blackie, 1988, Frederick Warne, 1990.
Flower Fairies of the Seasons, Bedrick/Blackie, 1988.
A Little Book of Prayers and Hymns, London, Frederick Warne, 1994.
A Flower Fairies Treasury, London, Frederick Warne, 1997.