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Posted: June 11 2009 at 7:41am | IP Logged Quote SylviaB
My 3.5 year old is very interested in both learning her letters and fairies.

I thought I would use some of the Alphabet Path, although don't think she is ready for most of it.

What I think I will do is teach her letters using Alphabet Fairy book and Saint book.

My 5 year old loves nature and thought I would do a short botany lesson with each flower in the fairy book.

So, I am looking for a good book on flowers. I would like a good picture of the flower and short description. Ideally I would like a good that has all the flowers from the Alphabet fairy book in it.

Any ideas?
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Posted: June 11 2009 at 11:06am | IP Logged Quote AndieF
Hopefully someone will have a book suggestion for you, however, what I did is just do a search on the flower and print up a picture and short description for each letter that corresponded with the Alphabet fairies. All the books that I found were too advanced for my 4 year old/preschool kids and probably even too advanced for my now 7 year old. Plus, I'm cheap and didn't want to spend $$ on a book, and I also wanted to find one that matched Serendipity/Alphabet fairies.

It is too bad that the Flower Fairies site took down the botanical information portion. It was really helpful and corresponded exactly! My 9 year old dd wrote them an e-mail last September asking them about it, and they said that they would look into adding it back, but as of a couple of weeks ago, they still hadn't.

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Posted: June 11 2009 at 2:05pm | IP Logged Quote SylviaB
hmmm, I might end up doing the same thing with the internet.

I would like to find a book so I could have some really good pictures, but I guess if we print out pictures from the internet we can put them in our storybook.
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Posted: July 08 2009 at 12:37am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
The Flower Alphabet Book is a really lovely book for combining alphabet and flower study. It doesn't necessarily have the ones from the flower fairy books though, but thought I'd throw out the suggestion.


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Posted: July 08 2009 at 7:37am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
MaryM wrote:
The Flower Alphabet Book is a really lovely book for combining alphabet and flower study. It doesn't necessarily have the ones from the flower fairy books though, but thought I'd throw out the suggestion.


Oh, we just love Jerry Pallota's books!

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Posted: July 08 2009 at 7:40am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
It's not a book, but Eboo's Alphabet Cards might be perfect for this, too.

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Posted: July 08 2009 at 8:23am | IP Logged Quote SylviaB
Mary, that looks like a great book. Jenn, I love that website, lots of great looking stuff! :)
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