The idea, says Macfarlane, is for people to take it outdoors with them and read it as they connect with the natural world - an experience many are turning to during the pandemic. But they're the nature we live with," Macfarlane said.Īlso unlike The Lost Words - which was a massive, glossy hardcover - The Lost Spells is a little more compact. There are wistful ballads about the swallow and the goldfinch, respectively inspired by Macfarlane's sleeping child and dying grandmother. There's a propulsive and almost rap-like tongue twister about the western jackdaw, a European crow, which British schoolchildren have been memorizing and performing. Morris and Macfarlane created The Lost Spells, a picture book to conjure the magic of everyday plants and animals.
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