The Lost Words Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018A timeless beautifully designed book for children and adults alike The Lost Words will be pored over and cherished for years to come.All over the country there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world Dandelion Otter Bramble and Acorn all gone. A wild landscape of imagination and play is rapidly fading from our children's minds.The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration - in art and word - of nearby nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris this enchanting book evokes the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.*** Discover The Lost Spells the magical companion book from the creators of a literary phenomenon. ***Praise for The Lost Words'The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this year' Frank Cottrell-Boyce Observer'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' Alex Preston Observer'My top book of the year' Susan Hill Spectator'Gorgeous to look at and to read. Give it to a child to bring back the magic of language - and its scope' Jeanette Winterson Guardian|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|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|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|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|One of the publishing sensations of recent times is The Lost Words|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|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|Rapturously received celebration of nature|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|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.|THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018A timeless beautifully designed book for children and adults alike The Lost Words will be pored over and cherished for years to come.All over the country there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world; Dandelion Otter Bramble and Acorn all gone. A wild landscape of imagination and play is rapidly fading from our children's minds.The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration - in art and word - of nearby nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris this enchanting book evokes the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.*** Discover The Lost Spells the magical companion book from the creators of a literary phenomenon. ***Praise for The Lost Words:'The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this year' Frank Cottrell-Boyce Observer'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' Alex Preston Observer'My top book of the year' Susan Hill Spectator'Gorgeous to look at and to read. Give it to a child to bring back the magic of language - and its scope' Jeanette Winterson Guardian|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.