Exploring My Bookshelves, hosted by Addlepates and Book Nerds, is continuing their spring meme theme.  Each Friday, bloggers are invited to post a picture of their bookshelf, and write in response to a prompt about said-bookshelf.

Today’s prompt is…a book with a flower on the cover.

I thought immediately of my lovely copy of Beauty by Robin McKinley…even though her other “Beauty and the Beast” retelling, Rose-Daughter, puts much more emphasis on flowers.

But the coolest rose in this book is not actually the one on the cover…