"Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful."
Kailash Satyarthi

The Lost Words
by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The Lost Words is both a celebration and a beautiful protest - a celebration of nature's power to spark the imagination, and a beautiful protest about the fast disappearing connection between humans - children in particular - and the natural world. Our increasing inability to recognise even relatively common species leads in turn to the disappearance of their names from the vocabulary of children - an impoverishment of language that accompanies a worrying reduction in the numbers of many species. Robert Macfarlane's thought-provoking spell-poems and Jackie Morris's vibrant watercolours will take you and your children on a journey into a magical world where nature is king once more.

"I want The Lost Words to delight the mind and the eye and send children to sleep dreaming of wild things." Jackie Morris

The More Beautiful World Our Heart Knows is Possible

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The Seabird's Cry

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The Running Hare

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