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 internationally renowned for his writing on
nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland,
Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind,
as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been
translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the
world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and
dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River
and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated
closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood,
and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally
bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The
Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and
songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and
Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The
Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster
Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural
winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the
field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie
Morris- The Lost 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*
Stunning . . . Addressing the disappearance of everyday nature
words and a ‘wild childhood’ from kids’ lives, The Lost Words
celebrates the magic of the natural world in a superbly soft
manner, much like an enchanting love letter to Mother Nature
*Imagine5*
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