BAMB Beautiful Book Award 2017 Hay Festival Book of the Year THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER' Fast becoming a cultural phenomenon Adapted as a choral work a theatrical performance stitched into embroidered braille whispered the words through the trees of the National Forest in Derbyshire It will be discovered by a generation of children' Guardian' My top book of the year' Susan Hill Spectator' Gorgeous to look at & to read Give it to a child to bring back the magic of language
- & its scope' Jeanette Winterson Guardian ' The most beautiful & thought-provoking book I've read this year' Frank Cottrell-Boyce Observer From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane & acclaimed artist & author Jackie Morris All over the country there are words disappearing from children's lives These are the words of the natural world
- Dandelion Otter Bramble & Acorn all gone The rich landscape of wild imagination & wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds' Gorgeous' Observer The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood It is a joyful celebration of nature words & the natural world they invoke With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane & h&-painted illustration by Jackie Morris this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language & nature for all ages' Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' Alex Preston Observer