![]() ![]() Refreshingly accessible, slightly magical.' - New Statesman This is the kind of complexity that can enthral a child as much as an adult. Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at. '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 ![]() The Lost Words is a beautiful book and an important one.' - Observer 'Sumptuous.a book combining meticulous wordcraft with exquisite illustrations deftly restores language describing the natural world to the children's lexicon. the poems or nature summoning spells are indebted to Gerard Manley Hopkins with rich alliteration, word-play and compound adjectives the illustrations make plants and creatures luminous against backgrounds of gold leaf.' - The Sunday Times ![]()
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