Flower Fairy Tales of the Language of Flowers: The Story of Two Shepherdesses, the Blonde and the Brunette: And of a Queen of France. by Taxile Delord (Paperback / softback, 2010)
Flower Fairy Tales of the Language of Flowers are taken from The Flowers Personified (1847), a strange, delightful book. It tells the stories of the flowers' lives after The Flower Fairy allowed them to become human. The Flower Fairy was displeased that the flowers wanted to leave her to become human. Their tales, for the most part, are t happy. Volume II: The Story of Two Shepherdesses, The Blonde and the Brunette: and of a Queen of France tells of the human lives of the Annual Bluebottle, Corn poppy and the Lily. Fantastical illustrations by J.J. Grandville, a rewned 19th century illustrator.