Australian Flower Fairies Address Book

Generations of children have loved the English Flower Fairy Books – here now are their Australian cousins.

Twenty-six exquisitely detailed illustrations by well-known artist Elizabeth Alger adorn this brightly coloured book, featuring the Lilly-Pilly Fairies, the Wattle Fairies, the Gum Tree Fairies and more.

Each picture is accompanied by a verse, written by nature-inspired gardener, artist and poet Margaret Thornton. Her three daughters also contributed poems.

The book contains pages for recording the contact details of friends and family.

Hardcover: 108 pages
Product Dimensions: 216×140 mm (5.5×8.5 in)

Elizabeth is one of Australia’s leading animal artists. She has an amazing ability to capture the essence and personality of the animals she portrays. For many years an illustrator and author of childrens’ books, she has her studio amongst the rolling hills of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia.Eli­zabeth’s work is highly sought after and in collections around the world.

Margaret Thornton was a scholar, intellectual, artist and poet, as well as a lover of nature and a fount of botanical wisdom. The daughter of an airforce pilot, she travelled the world during her youth, later marrying an architect, with whom she had three children. Unusually, she was born, lived and died in the same house – an unpretentious weatherboard in Melbourne, Australia.

Author Biography

M. Margaret Thornton was a gifted writer, poet and painter who lived in Victoria, Australia. Her botanical knowledge and love of nature was prodigious. She wrote most of the poems for the Australian Flower Fairies books just prior to her death in the early 1990s. Elizabeth Alger is one of Australia’s leading animal artists. She has an amazing ability to capture the essence and personality of the animals she portrays. For many years an illustrator and author of childrens’ books, she has her studio amongst the rolling hills of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. Elizabeth’s work is highly sought after and in collections around the world.