A beautiful companion set to the award-winning and internationally beloved phenomena,The Lost Words and The Lost Spells,adults and children alike will love receiving,sending and displaying The Wild Cards'Breathtaking and magical. Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at'New Statesman'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty'ObserverDiscover and share the wonders of the wild world as seen in The Lost Words and The Lost Spells...This collection of 100 postcards features artwork and words from two beloved modern classics,in which Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane celebrate the creatures,trees and plants of nearby nature,from Acorn to Wren,by way of Curlew and Kingfisher,Silver Birch and Snow Hare,Goldfinch and Gorse.The front of each card bears one of Morris's Greenaway Medal-winning paintings; on the reverse,you will find an accompanying quotation from one of the spell-poems in the Lost books,as well as an identification of the species shown on the card. The remaining space is left blank for you to fill in these wild cards with pen,pencil or paint - and then send them out into the world to make and renew connections.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241534090Number of pages: 100Weight: 730 gDimensions: 170 x 115 x 63 mm
Robert Macfarlane
A British author and academic,Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory,landscape,nature,environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book,Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include,The Old Ways,Landmarks and The Lost Words,a children's book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.
Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time,Underland,will be published in 2019.
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Jackie Morris is an award-winning British writer and illustrator,best known for the stunning The Lost Words,co-authored with Robert Macfarlane. Their second collaboration,The Lost Spells,is published in April 2020.
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