PRAISE FOR ROBERT MACFARLANE, JACKIE MORRIS, AND THE LOST SPELLS International Bestseller "Elegant . There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors." -- Wall Street Journal "This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature . Breathtakingly magical." -- Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEWS "Macfarlane''s lyrics . ring with consonance ("Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls,/ is cast adrift") and wordplay ("Woodpecker, tree-wrecker") . Morris''s fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a fox''s snout, birds'' calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark . One to treasure.
" -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW "Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness . These painted verses sing and shimmer with a magical exuberance that renders the wild world not parallel, not foreign, but proximate, beckoning, native to our own souls . A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy." -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "Through deeply humane poems paired with warm illustrations, MacFarlane and Morris invited readers into the space where the enchanting natural world meets the expansive imagination . Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling." -- Shelf Awareness "The Lost Spells employs Robert Macfarlane''s rapturous language and Jackie Morris''s bewitching illustrations to return language and art to their ancient occupations: building bridges of understanding between human and non-human worlds. More than a mere book, it''s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader''s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration." -- Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity PRAISE FOR ROBERT MACFARLANE, JACKIE MORRIS, AND THE LOST WORDS Winner, CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Finalist, Wainwright Prize "A gorgeous book!" -- @MargaretAtwood "Every page is enthralling.
" -- New York Times "Art, verse, and nature are combined with entertaining elegance in The Lost Words . This large, quality hardcover allows words and watercolour to shine and results in a work that can be left open at any page to stunning effect." -- Shelf Awareness, STARRED REVIEW "A gorgeous coffee-table book . with stunning artwork made with watercolour and gold leaf, and poems on words ranging from ''acorn'' to ''wren.''" -- PEI Guardian "Stylish and melancholy, The Lost Words is a book to savour." -- Wall Street Journal "My top book of the year." -- Spectator "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." -- Observer "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 "A breathtaking book." -- New Statesman "A sumptuous, nostalgic ode to a disappearing landscape." -- Kirkus Reviews "This union of natural history, poetry, art, and whimsy is, indeed, a truly enchanting all-ages book of life to contemplate, read aloud, and share." -- Booklist "Utterly enchanting, it''s a celebration of nature -- but also language itself.
If I ran the world, it''d be in every school library and classroom possible." -- Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast "One of the most stunningly beautiful books I have had the pleasure of reading (and rereading) this year." -- Fab Book Reviews "Gorgeous to look at and to read. Give it to a child to bring back the magic of language -- and its scope." -- Jeanette Winterson "The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I''ve read this year." -- Frank Cottrell-Boyce "Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty." -- Alex Preston.