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Patricia Hruby Powell - Blossom Tales

cover of Blossom Tales book with flowers and a fairy

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Blossom Tales: Flower Stories of Many Folk - illustrated by Sarah Dillard

My first picture book! And with a wonderful publisher, Moon Mountain. And a fantastic illustrator.

While I waited for a publisher to take this manuscript, I found my garden filling up with the characters from the stories: a dwarf, a princess, a mess of fairies, a saint, the wind, a dragon, and many others. I wanted other people to know all these colorful characters in their gardens. So...they don't help with the weeding. They do offer inspiration to weed.


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I've grown all the flowers from the book, even the hard to find mignonette, which does indeed make you feel drunk with its strong sweet scent. I believe it could "wake the dead". I invite you all to grow these flowers and see if the characters arrive. Let me know: if you are in a tulip garden on a moonlit night, can you hear the fairies singing their babies to sleep as they rock them in their tulip cradles?

I love Sarah's illustrations. My publisher couldn't have found a better match for the stories. As my stepdaughter said, "I could eat the colors."


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Crocus   -   Sicily
Morning Glory   -   Hawaii
Columbine   -   Iroquois
Lily of Valley   -   Sussex, England
Peony   -   Japan
Snapdragon   -   Russia
Nasturtium   -   Quechua, South America
Rose   -   Persia
Dandelion   -   Ojibwa
Alyssum   -   Italy
Mignonette   -   Egypt
Aster & Goldenrod   -   Cherokee
Geranium   -   Arab
Tulip   -   Devon, England


Reviews of Blossom Tales

"A must-buy for storytellers, teachers,
parents and any lover of folklore or flowers."

- Jim May, Artistic Director,
  Illinois Storytelling Festival


"Gardening parents will enjoy this
charming book as much as their children"

     - Sydney Eddison, author,
       The Self-Taught Gardener


"What a wonderful collection of tales. From now on when I walk
through a garden I'll look on each of these flowers with new eyes."

     - Dan Keding, storyteller

Many More Reviews ->

Email Patricia Hruby Powell at
phpowell@talesforallages.com

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