By Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

Favorite quote: Silver Birch A Lullaby

Snow is falling, my silver seeker;

soon the path will be lost to sight,

soon the day, the day will give way to night -

Ice is forming, my silver seeker;

soon the streams will be fastened tight,

soon the shadows will claim the light.

(…)

From the publisher: 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.

“Breathtakingly magical.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Hardcover

5 × 7.25 in.ches | 240 pages