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 not 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 renowned 19th century illustrator.