From Acorn to Weasel- a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spell book celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of a number of bestselling and
prize-winning books including The Wild Places, The Old Ways,
Holloway and Landmarks. His work has been translated
into many languages and widely adapted for film, television and
radio, and his essays have appeared in the New Yorker,
Granta and the Guardian. Most recently, the American
Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the EM Forster Award for
Literature 2017. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, and is presently completing Underland, about
underworlds real and imagined.
Jackie Morris grew up in the Vale of Evesham and studied at
Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy. She has illustrated
for the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian, has
collaborated with Ted Hughes, and has written & illustrated over
forty books children's including beloved classics such as Song
of the Golden Hare, Tell Me A Dragon, East of the Sun, West of the
Moon and The Wild Swans. Jackie Morris lives in a
cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire.
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 *
'deeply reflective and gorgeously illustrated...Morris's paintings
of wildlife echo the complexity and vibrancy of Macfarlane's
poetry' * Publisher's Weekly *
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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