Beautiful book, and all the recommendations were right - thank you Sunday Times for drawing everyone’s attention to it! It should be in every primary school !!
The Lost Words
A Hardback edition by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (Oct 2, 2017)

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Product Description
BAMB Beautiful Book Award 2017
Hay Festival Book of the Year
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
'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
'The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this year' Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer
From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and 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 and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and 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 and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.
'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' Alex Preston, Observer
The Lost Words Hardback edition by Robert Macfarlane
Product Details
Product Specification
- Author
- Robert Macfarlane
- Author
- Jackie Morris
- ISBN-13
- 9780241253588
- Format
- Hardback,
- Publishers
- Penguin Books Ltd , Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Publication date
- Oct 2, 2017
- Pages
- 128
- Interest Age
- 5 - 7 years
- Product dimensions
- 277 x 371 x 17mm
- Weight
- 1,494g
Categories
Children's & Young Adult Picture Books
Children's & Young Adult Poetry, Anthologies & Annuals Poetry
Children's & Young Adult Non-Fiction Natural History Wildlife
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- 5 stars
- Nov 25, 2017
- By Claire (2)
Wonderful book !
Such a great book, for children as well as for adults. I cannot get tired of it!
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LoginAuthor Biography

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.