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The Land of the Blue Flower

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Book Overview: 

The Land of the Blue Flower was not called by that name until the tall, strong, beautiful King Amor came down from his castle on the mountain crag and began to reign. Before that time it was called King Mordreth's Land, and as the first King Mor-dreth had been a fierce and cruel king this seemed a gloomy name

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ned and gone to give his greeting to the sun."

And as the little King sat upright, enraptured, he saw that from the dazzling brightness at the edge of the world there leaped forth a ball of living gold and fire, and even he knew that the sun had risen.

"At every day's dawn it leaps forth like that," said the Ancient One.
"Let us watch together and I will tell you stories of it."

So they sat by the battlement and the stories were told. They were stories of the small grains lying hid in the dark earth waiting for the golden heat of the sun to draw them forth into life until they covered the tilled fields with waving wheat to make bread for the world; they were stories of the seeds of fair flowers warmed and ripened until they burst into scented blossoms; they were stories of the roots of trees and the rich sap drawn upward by the heat until great branches and thick leafage waved in the summer air; th. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A quietly transformative fairy tale! I had no idea that Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote this children's book. But, after reading six of her books the past few years, I could see influences of this book in The Secret Garden. I loved the ephemeral, nature-based quality of the author's descriptive writin

reminded me of the stories i read when i was quite young & “the little prince” :)

WOW this book is not well known and it was a beautiful story! I got teary-eyed!

loved the story and lesson learned.

This is a small, short book about a good king and how he changed his kingdom. This book was only 92 pages long but had a good feel to it. The author is the same author who wrote "The Secret Garden".

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