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.
Since its publication in 2017,
has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now,
, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.
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. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. To read
is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away.