A lost classic of children's nature writing - introduced and illustrated by beloved creator of The Lost Words, Jackie Morris
Barbara Newhall Follett (Author)
Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist.
Born in 1914, she published her first novel, The House Without
Windows, aged twelve. One year later she published another, The
Voyage of the Norman D., based on her own experiences sailing round
Nova Scotia without her parents at thirteen years old. Barbara
Newhall Follett disappeared shortly before Christmas 1939, leaving
her home with $30 in her pocket, and was never seen again. The
mystery of her disappearance has never been solved.
Jackie Morris (Illustrator, Introducer)
Jackie Morris is the bestselling and award-winning co-creator of
The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured
the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. She
also illustrated and introduced a new edition of Barbara Newhall
Follett's lost classic of wild literature, The House Without
Windows. As an author, Jackie Morris has produced over forty
beloved children's books; as an artist she has also worked with the
New Statesman, Independent and Guardian, among others. She won the
Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children's Book of
the Year for The Lost Words in 2018. Jackie lives in a cottage on
the cliffs of Pembrokeshire, where she is now working on her
forthcoming third book with long-time collaborator, Robert
Macfarlane- The Book of Birds.
One of the strangest, most enchanting and mystifying stories I've
read in recent years . . . It's beautiful, bonkers and brimming
with the abundance and richness of nature and a life lived with no
boundaries. Also Jackie's intro and illustrations provide a depth
and context that only lifts the book and its story higher.
*Rob Cowen*
. . . Extraordinary. Deeply weird, beautiful & unsettling.
*Robert Macfarlane*
The House without Windows is miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a
dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by
Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our
own bewildered times.
*Nick Drake*
Astonishingly lyrical
*The Spectator*
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