The Lost Spells

By Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

Rediscover nature's magic through enchanting poems and illustrations.

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240 pages

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Bookroo's summary

In 'The Lost Spells,' nature's wonders come alive through spellbinding poems and vivid illustrations. This collection invites readers to reconnect with the world around them, conjuring images of foxes, birch trees, and jackdaws. As you turn each page, feel the magic of the natural world and ponder what is lost when we let it slip away. Will you heed the call to re-wild your life and see the beauty that surrounds you?

From the publisher

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, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. 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. 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 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.

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