One to treasure.- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature. Morriss fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a foxs snout, birds calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark. ring with consonance (Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls, / is cast adrift) and wordplay (Woodpecker, tree-wrecker). A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy.- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Macfarlanes lyrics. 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. There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors.- Wall Street Journal Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away.

Robert Macfarlanes spell-poems and Jackie Morriss watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers minds. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Book Synopsis The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. About the Book First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Hamish Hamilton, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies-Colophon.

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