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's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling
books include Is a River Alive?, 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, albums, choral works, and films
including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur
Eliasson, 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. In 2017, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature,
and in 2023 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 presently
working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Macfarlane and Morris's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
Jackie Morris (Author)
Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books,
including the beloved children's classics Tell Me a Dragon and East
of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for
readers of all ages, Wild Folk,
co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and
illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett's gem of wild literature, The
House Without Windows. She is the internationally 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. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and
the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for The Lost
Words.
Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and
has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian
among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs
ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art
College.
Morris and Macfarlane's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
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*
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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