The Lost Words

Resumen del libro

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CILIP KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL 2019WINNER OF THE BEAUTIFUL BOOK AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2018'The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this year' Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer'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'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' Alex Preston, Observer 'My top book of the year' Susan Hill, SpectatorFrom the outstanding creative partnership of Robert Macfarlane (Underland, The Old Ways) and Jackie Morris (Tell Me a Dragon, The Snow Leopard)All 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. The 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.

Biografía del autor

Robert Macfarlane (Halam, 1976) Estudió en Oxford y Cambridge, de donde es profesor en el Emmanuel College. Se le considera uno de los autores centrales de la nature writing, con grandes éxitos de ventas como Las montañas de la mente, una historia cultural de las cimas, ganadora del The Guardian Book Prize 2003, o bien Naturaleza virgen, sus crónicas de expediciones en las que se adentra en zonas remotas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda. Sus trabajos se han traducido a gran cantidad de lenguas, y se han hecho numerosas adaptaciones al cine o la televisión que le han merecido los principales galardones del género, como el Premio E. M. Forster de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras.