Summary
Buttercup has been busy harvesting pollen and she's collected enough to make fairy dust to last an entire year! So she's devastated when she loses it-worst of all, to the naughty elves.
If they discover the pollen's magical properties, Buttercup will have given away the Flower Fairies' most important secret . . . Can she think up a plan all by herself and stop the elves in time?
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)
