• Elsa Beskow Calendar 2026

    by  • 26 August 2025 • 0 Comments

    Are you a lover of vintage illustrations, or do you know someone who is? The Elsa Beskow Calendar 2026 is the perfect way to have beautiful artwork on your wall every month of the year and helps to keep you organised too! Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) is the most popular children’s illustrator in Sweden.  She...

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    Building treehouses… and friendships

    by  • 13 August 2025 • 0 Comments

    Sharing stories is a great way to tackle tough situations, feelings and new experiences, such as missing old friends. The Together Treehouse by Michael Engler and Joëlle Tourlonias is a deeply felt picture book about cherishing old memories and friendships while opening your heart to new experiences – and new friends. Read on to...

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    Hansel and Gretel

    by  • 11 August 2025 • 0 Comments

    From wicked queens and fearsome beasts to sneaky witches and terrible giants, An Illustrated Collection of Fairy Tales for Brave Children illustrated by Scott Plumbe is a stunning collection of darkly magical fairy tales which gathers together stories of children who show true courage and face their fears. These stories are perfect for sharing...

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    Step Inside The Calendar of the Soul

    by  • 30 July 2025 • 0 Comments

    Karl König meditated intensely on the 52 weekly verses of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul. He often encouraged his colleagues to find inner strength from the verses, and wrote The Calendar of the Soul, which forms part one of this combined volume, as a guide for them, drawing out the patterns through the...

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    What can you find along The Yellow Road?

    by  • 16 July 2025 • 0 Comments

    In Sven Nordqvist’s new picture book The Yellow Road, Sam wakes up in a strange fairytale world inhabited by small folk and talking animals. Equipped with a very useful backpack and an optimistic attitude, Sam travels through otherworldly lands, encountering giggly giraffes, a gruff submarine captain, a toy picnic and a magical painting. Sometimes...

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    The Princess and the Pea

    by  • 3 July 2025 • 0 Comments

    Here at Floris Books we love fairy tales – those classic stories that we return to again and again. One of our favourites is The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen. To celebrate our new edition of this timeless fairy tale, we discover some fun facts about its history and look at...

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    The Sekem Effect

    by  • 27 May 2025 • 0 Comments

    How a sustainable community can transform Egypt and the world When Dr Ibrahim Abouleish founded Sekem in 1977, his visionary aim was to create a new kind of sustainable community in the Egyptian desert where high quality biodynamic crops were grown, where workers and residents received holistic healthcare and their children received a meaningful...

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    Your Elsa Beskow Baby Book

    by  • 8 May 2025 • 0 Comments

    We are so excited to welcome the latest addition to the Floris family… Your Elsa Beskow Baby Book: A Memory Book of Your First Years! Often referred to as the ‘Beatrix Potter’ of Scandinavia, Elsa Beskow’s picture books have been known and loved for over a century. Over on our Elsa Beskow author page you can...

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    Understanding Karma

    by  • 6 May 2025 • 0 Comments

    Although belief in karma is widespread today, it is often misunderstood by both critics and believers. This fascinating and thought-provoking book draws on the work of Rudolf Steiner to present an old idea in a new way.  In Understanding Karma: Rethinking Destiny, Reincarnation and Free Will, Jens Heisterkamp argues that karma is an essential...

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    The Planetary Gestures in Eurythmy

    by  • 25 April 2025 • 0 Comments

    In this extract Barfod presents the seven planetary gestures as described by Rudolf Steiner, outlining their characteristics and sound relationships. The Characteristics of the Planetary Gestures The earliest description of the seven gestures is to be found in notebook entries addressed to Erna Wolfram van Deventer in 1914, which have since been published in...

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