This beautiful treasury contains a selection of some of the best-loved Flower Fairies illustrations together with their informative poems. The enlarged format of the water colour illustrations are reproduced from the recently originated printing plates so that their delicacy and detail can be seen to the finest advantage and Cicely's skilled craftmanship as an artist can be fully appreciated. (Frederick Warne, 1991)

Flower Fairies of Spring

Flower Fairies of Summer

Flower Fairies of Autumn

Flower Fairies of Winter

Flower Fairies of the Garden

Flower Fairies of the Trees

Flower Fairies of the Wayside

Grandfather Twilight
Barbara Berger (1984)

Day is done, shadows begin to deepen and it is time for Grandfather Twilight to go for his walk through the forest to welcome noght... (Sandcastle Books)

Little Brother of the Wilderness: The Story of Johnny Appleseed
Meridel Le Sueur (1947) llustrations by Suzy Sansom (1987) 72pages

It was lonely making America. It was a big, big country. It was a deep wide country. And there were no apple trees. There were no apple trees blooming in the spring, no big round apples, no little bright tart apples. No apples at all! This was very sad. It would have been very sad to this day, but there was a man who thought it would be very lonely making America without any apple trees...apple butter, apple cider and apple pies, while men were chopping out the forest, ploughing up the prairies, planting wheat and corn in North America. This man's name was Jonathan Chapman. - from the author's opening lines (Holy Cow Press,1997)

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943) translated by Katherine Woods. 97pages

No story is more beloved by children and grownups alike than this wise, enchanting fable. One day, the author reminisces, when his plane was forced down in the Sahara a thousand miles from help, he encountered a most extraordinary small person. "If you please," said the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And thus begins the remarkable history of the Little Prince. The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He owned three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. He also owned a flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the Little Prince's world and started him on the interplanetary travels that brought him to Earth, where he learned finally, from a fox, the secret of what is really important in life. (Harcourt Brace)

The Minpins
Roald Dahl (1991) Illustrated by Patrick Benson (1991) 48pages

Come deep into the forest if you dare, but beware the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler. If you climb up into the trees you may be lucky enough to meet some of the thousands of tiny Minpins who live there. Happy, friendly folk in suction-boots, their miniature homes fill every tree, with windows the size of postage stamps. (Puffins Book)

The Painter and the Wild Swans
Claude Clement (1986) Pictures by Frederic Clement (1986)

An artist wonders how he can ever hope to capture the beauty of a flock of wild swans. (Puffin Pied Piper)

The Rainbow Fairy Book: Classic Fairy Tales
Edited by Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Illustrated by Michael Hague(1993) 288pages

For generations, children and adults have delighted in the enchanted world of the fairy tale - the timeless kingdom of giants and dwarfs, kings and princesses, monsters and fairies. And the most comprehensive and beloved collection of these stories is Andrew Lang's series of fairy-tale books of many colors. From The Blue Fairy Book in 1889 to The Lilac Fairy Book in 1910, Lang's twelve volumes bought together spellbinding tales of adventure and romance from every corner of the globe. In The Rainbow Fairy Book, celebrated artist Michael Hague introduces a new generation to Lang's multicultural classics. These thirty-one stories feature the best of Lang, from Hans Christian Andersen's literary tales to the traditional stories preserved by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm to the timeless folktales of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Native America.(Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Co.)

Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Illustrations by Tom Feelings (1993) Poems by Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Margaret Walker & ten others

For four hundred years African creativity has been struggling to counter the narrow constraints of oppression, to circle it, turn it around, to seek order and meaning in the midst of chaos. My soul looks back in wonder at how African creativity has sustained us and how it still flows - seeking, searching for new ways to connect the ancient with the new, the young with the old, the unborn with the ancestors. Our creativity, moving, circling, improvising within the restricted form of oppression, reminds us that we must remain responsible to each other - we are not only individuals, but part of a collective that writes a common history and future. This book is a part of that flow of creativity - Tom Feelings (Puffin Book)

Sundancer: A Mystical Fantasy
Edward M. Hays (1982)

At one time, all legends and myths were new. In Sundancer, Edward Hays has fashioned a youthful fable which deals with life's most ancient riddle, touching at the very heart of all the great religious traditions as it speaks of life, death and freedom. Like Joseph Campbell, the acclaimed writer andd scholar of mythology, the author believes that we are the "ancestors" of an age to come; we are the generators of the myths, stories and legends that will inspire those of a future age. Perhaps one day - in some distant time - Sundancer will be an "old" legend. (Forest of Peace)