From Acorn to Weasel- a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spell book celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world.
Robert Macfarlane (Author)
Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the
Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland, and
co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. Mountains of the
Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham
Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books
have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the
Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of
the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel
for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The
New York Times. He is now working on his third book with long-time
collaborator, Jackie Morris- The Book of Birds.
Jackie Morris (Author)
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.
Sumptuously illustrated... the poems or nature summoning spells are
indebted to Gerard Manley Hopkins with rich alliteration, word-play
and compound adjectives [and] the illustrations make plants and
creatures luminous against backgrounds of gold leaf
*The Sunday Times*
One of the most striking and poignant picture books of the
season...this giant tome contains not only beautiful illustrations
but a haunting series of poems that read like a summoning back of
the wild...a book in which every page seems like an act of love
*Herald*
Sumptuous...a book combining meticulous wordcraft with exquisite
illustrations deftly restores language describing the natural world
to the children's lexicon... The Lost Words is a beautiful book and
an important one
*The Observer*
A breathtaking book... Jackie Morris has created something that you
could spend all day looking at... This is the kind of complexity
that can enthral a child as much as an adult... Refreshingly
accessible, slightly magical
*New Statesman*
One of the publishing sensations of recent times is The Lost
Words
*Daily Mail*
My top book of the year... It is one of those children's books for
ages up to 99 years. The lost words are those my generation and
earlier ones used every day and which are fast disappearing, and
Macfarlane's aim is to resurrect the everyday glories of our
language. May he succeed
*Susan Hill*
Gilded and glorious, Jackie Morris's paintings illustrate Robert
Macfarlane's acrostic poems in The Lost Words, one of the years
loveliest books for all ages over 10
*The Sunday Times*
Rapturously received celebration of nature
*The New Statesman*
Macfarlane is a changemaker... he has made nature-writing populis6t
and big-selling. Morris's paintings are beautiful - at once
familiar and other. A contender for book of the year
*The Big Issue*
Publisher's description. An illustrated spell-book in watercolour
and gold leaf, from the rich creative minds of award-winning author
Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist Jackie Morris. As nature
vanishes from children's language and their imagination, The Lost
Words stands against the loss of magic, celebrating the joy of wild
childhood and wild places.
*Penguin*
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