Eden Coybee 14 min read

A gently illustrated Edwardian picture-book that tells the stories of the flowers, for the very young.

Eden Coybee's 1901 entry in the 'Dumpy Books for Children,' with colour pictures by Nellie Benson, spins a small, sweet tale around the blossoms of the garden. A charming period artifact of Edwardian children's publishing rather than science fiction. Read it for the delicate, old-fashioned pleasures of a turn-of-the-century picture-book.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

14 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Nellie Benson