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BAMB Beautiful Book Award 2017Hay Festival Book of the YearTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Fast becoming a cultural phenomenon... Adapted as a choral work, a theatrical performance, stitched into embroidered braille, whisper[ed] the words through the trees of the National Forest in Derbyshire...[It] will be discovered by a generation of children Guardian My top book of the year Susan Hill, Spectator Gorgeous to look at and to read. Give it to a child to bring back the magic of language - and its scope Jeanette Winterson, Guardian The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I ve read this year Frank Cottrell-Boyce, ObserverFrom bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist & author Jackie MorrisAll over the country, there are words disappearing from children s lives., These are the words of the natural world - Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children s minds. Gorgeous ObserverThe Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke., With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty Alex Preston, Observer