The Lost Flower Children

By Janet Taylor Lisle and Satomi Ichikawa

Two grieving sisters resolve to break a spell cast by evil fairies
After the death of their mother, Olivia and Nellie are shipped off to their great-aunt’s house for the summer. Nine-year-old Olivia is not excited about the trip—she has to keep one eye on kind but eccentric Aunt Minty and the other on her younger sister, Nellie, who’s been behaving oddly. But the summer takes an interesting turn when Olivia discovers an old fairy tale: the story of a group of children who, at a garden tea party, are turned into flowers. The garden sounds an awful lot like the one at Aunt Minty’s house—could the flower children be real? If Olivia and Nellie can only locate the old tea set from the story, they might be able to break the spell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Release date: Sep 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781480433854

Janet Taylor Lisle

Janet Taylor Lisle (b. 1947) is an author of children’s fiction. After growing up in Connecticut, Lisle graduated from Smith College and spent a year working for the volunteer group VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) before becoming a journalist. She found that she loved writing human interest and “slice of life” stories, and honed the skills for observation and dialogue that would later serve her in her fiction. Lisle took a fiction writing course in 1981, and then submitted a manuscript to Richard Jackson, a children’s book editor at Bradbury Press who was impressed with her storytelling. Working with Jackson, Lisle published her first novel, The Dancing Cats of Applesap, in 1984. Since then she has written more than a dozen books for young readers, including The Great Dimpole Oak (1987) and Afternoon of the Elves (1989), which won a Newbery Honor. Her most recent novel is Highway Cats (2008).

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Reviews for The Lost Flower Children

[abigailadams26 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

When nine-year-old Olivia and her five-year-old sister Nellie’s mother dies, their father sends them to live with their great-aunt Minty. This arrangement seems less than promising to Olivia, who worries about the demanding and difficult Nellie. When the girls find a beautiful blue teacup in Aunt Minty’s garden however, they are drawn into a summer-long quest to find the entire set, a necessary part of the counter-charm needed to free the Lost Flower Children, spoken of in a story Olivia has read about this very garden.A moving story about two young girls and how they come to terms with their mother’s death, The Lost Flower Children possesses Lisle’s characteristic blend of fantasy and reality, in which the reader is never sure if the magic is real or imagined. The faintest touch of real magic at the end, another Lisle characteristic, gives emphasis to the book’s journey of imagination.