Summary
Will Tansy find a new home and save the Flower Fairies Garden?
Tansy lives in the Flower Fairies Garden, but when her unruly flowers start to take over the whole garden, the other fairies suggest she might like to move to a nearby lane where there?s more room for her blossoms to thrive. She soon befriends the mischievous elves who live there. However, things start to go amiss in the Flower Fairies Garden and Tansy thinks the elves might be behind it. Will she be able to discover what?s going on before the fairy garden is ruined forever?
Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, England in 1895. As a child she spent much of her time drawing and painting, and her father enrolled her in art courses at the age of 13. She sold her first work two years later to a stationery printer. Barker was elected a life member of Croydon Art Society a year after that.
She is most famous for her Flower Fairy series of books and was greatly influenced artistically by Kate Greenaway and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Barker used real-life models for her paintings, created only botanically accurate flowers, and worked primarily in watercolor with pen and ink.
(Bowker Author Biography)
