Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Lost Flower Children

Author: Janet Taylor Lisle

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed - and, later, an old story about eight children transformed into flowers. Only the person who finds their teacups can bring them back. Now the two sisters know what they must do.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful and touching story about love and loss

I read this book last night, having merely picked it up to see if my daughter would like it. I couldn't put it down. The style is so gentle, and much like the books I read in my own childhood, rather than those stories which feel so forced to demonstrate how cool they are in order to interest today's children. I imagine many very normal girls will be very interested by the excellent style of the writer, by the story of the flower fairies which takes place in a summer garden, and by the genuine love and emotion which is generated by the interaction between the main characters.

The story is about two sisters whose mother has just died. The older one is able to admit to herself how lonely she feels for her mother. Yet she is also able to sacrifice her own need to grieve in order to care for her younger sister whose response to loss has been to obey rigid self-imposed routines and to contol her life in a way her mother's death would bely, by keeping outsiders strictly out of her life. The girls spend a summer with an elderly aunt and pursue an old mystery they read about in one of the books in the aunt's ancient home. Much of the action is spent in a wildly unkempt but magical and charming garden, and the girls' journey from grief to a more peaceful acceptance of their loss is a somewhat magical journey. The story gives a very positive role to the elderly aunt whose home they spend the summer visiting, and also paints a beautiful picture of sisterly support and love.

It's an absolute treasure of a book and I highly recommend it.

The Lost Flower Children

In The Lost Flower Children nine year old Olivia lives with her five year old sister, Nellie, and her pop.Olivia's mother passed away. Olivia is a very smart girl. She's read many books.Olivia's remembers every thing she's ever read. Her sister say's her brains like a sponge. Olivia's pop is always on the road so this summer he's sending them to Aunt Minty's house. Olivia and Nellie have never heard of their aunt and are not looking forward to the long summer ahead. They will be staying with Aunt Minty until the end of August. Aunt Minty used to be a famous gardener. Now she just gardens around her horse shoe garden. Aunt Minty's house is filled with books. Many of them were from close friends and family who's passed away and left them to her. The books are all over, on book cases in every bedroom, and book shelves on the living room walls. One day Olivia found a book in Aunt Minty's room. She relized the garden in the story sounded alot like the one in Aunt Minty's backyard. Olivia went to go ask her about it and she said the writter used to be popular, but not any more because of his old fashioned language. The guy used to own Aunt Minty'

Solid work by a solid author...

This is a fine story for middle readers, readers of fantasy, those who like family stories...