Lost Spells

• Utgivningsdatum: 2020-10-01
• Mått: 131 x 184 x 24 mm
• Vikt: 415 g
• Ålder: 6-9
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Läsålder: 6-9
• Antal sidor: 240
• Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9780241444641

• Bilderböcker
• Poesi & Antologier
• Djur och natur
• Religion och filosofi

Robert Macfarlane's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling books include Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood. With the artist Jackie Morris he has co-created several internationally bestselling books celebrating the natural world in word and image: The Lost Words, The Lost Spells and The Book of Birds. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk, co-created with Tamsin Abbott. In 2020 she introduced and illustrated a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. Morris is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator, with Robert Macfarlane, of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words. Morris and Macfarlane's latest bestselling collaboration is The Book of Birds.Jackie Morris's artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College.

The poems are beautiful, insightful and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny; and together with the vivid artwork, wild creatures are brought to life. A beautiful volume sure to be treasured by nature lovers of all ages.

2 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

1. 5/5 A-B G 2021-01-21

   Den kände naturalisten Robert Macfarlane har här givit engelskspråkiga barn ramsor att läsa och lära utantill som handlar om djur, fåglar och natur, ord och namn som annars försvinner ur våra minnen. Underbara illustrationer av Jackie Morris.

2. 5/5 M B 2021-12-24