Il barbagianni, la volpe e la quercia

The Lost Spells is a celebration of the natural; it is a collection of prose poetry about foxes and trees and birds and rabbits and flowers: it is an elegy to what we are losing and what we must try to retain. It’s educational; it’s a book we should give to our children and to our adults to help them Leggi tutto

A few years ago, these two authors teamed up to create The Lost Words after the OUP dictionary had removed several nature words. Personally, I was downright angry - especially when they justified their action by saying that the words had become unimportant. So the authors created and published a

There is one word that describes this book perfectly, and that word is: enchanting! Enchanting literally means "to put under a spell." Now I'm sure you can see why I think "The Lost SPELLS" is utterly enchanting! 🌟 I discovered Robert Macfarlane (the brilliant wordsmith and author) and Jackie Morris Leggi tutto

I am Red Fox — Why do you need me?I am your double, your ghost, your other, The spirit Of Wild, the spirit Of weather, Red is my fur and red is my art, And red is the blood Of your animal heart. The Lost Spells is a beautiful and an enticing collection of poems about nature and it highlights the

I had been wanting to read this after loving The Lost Words. The illustrations are gorgeous but the poetry and spells were not as alluring. 3.5 stars. I did like the Oak as excerpted below: “Poplar is the whispering tee, Rowan is the sheltering tree, Willow is the weeping tree – and Oak is the waiting tr Leggi tutto

Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. An ode to the wonderful creatures, especially birds, but also other flying inspirations, forest dwellers, trees, and flowers. Poetry, profusely illustrated, meant to be read aloud. Mostly beautiful, sometimes metaphoric or elliptical, occasio Leggi tutto