The Lost Spells

My son thinks this is a lovely and very artistic book themed around animals and nature. He recommends it for both children and adults, as he knows it appeals to both because his mum originally bought it for herself.

He likes it because the illustrations are amazing and detailed. He thinks the verses are well put together.

A wise man once said to me, “if you can say it, you can see it." This magical book of art, poetry, and nature is a response to the removal of nature words such as “acorn,” “wren,” and “dandelion,” from a children’s dictionary. His gorgeous writing encourages us to wonder at the forgotten and to behold the ordinary by uttering nature words as a conjuring thing. During a time of environmental loss, grief, and forgetting, McFarlane lets us fall in love again with the greater-than-human world through language and therefore, to renew our capacity to marvel at the living landscape… show more.