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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
Stunning watercolours and stunning poetry, this is everything I look for in a book. One of the best books I’ve read this year.
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Breathtaking. Stunning. Wondrous. Simply beautiful.
The poetry was engaging and fun to read aloud but what I mostly loved were the beautiful paintings that illustrated the book.
Such a stunningly beautiful book! Now we need an American version...
I was given this book as a gift, and WHAT a gift. Such a beautiful thing, the illustrations so breathtaking, the poems/spells so alive and magical. Technically I suppose this is a children's book, but beyond that, it's a TRUE book, a book we desperately need, all of us - a book that breathes connection to the wild beings we've lost our relationships with. It's a book we should all be reading aloud in reverent voices to our children, to our elders, to the trees in our back yards.
Clever poems, lovely illustrations, wonderful book
This was not what I was expecting, I thought it would be more non-fiction and not poetry. Interesting idea but I would have enjoyed it more if it talked about the elements of nature lost by not using the words in a more concrete way rather than through poems. Some good alliteration. Listened to the audiobook which had soundscapes which were nice sometimes and annoying or distracting other times.
Robert Macfarlane has quickly become one of my favorite writers. The premise of this book intrigued me. Macfarlane discovered that a number of nature words have disappeared from the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary. They had been replaced by technology related terms. How distressing! In this volume, Macfarlane takes thes nature words, and writes short essays in the form of poems. In between each poem are pages of beautiful illustrations by Jackie Morris. As I had already read [b:The Lost Spells|49358272|The Lost Spells|Robert Macfarlane|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603920509l/49358272._SX50_.jpg|74794916] which blew me away, I found this book to be a bit "less". I would have welcomed more about the language and linguistic aspects of the elimination of these words from a children's dictionary.
I love this. Our 3yo loves it too. Excellent poetry (for adults or kids) and fun to read out loud. My favorites are willow, otter, raven, adder, and acorn. Except our 3yo says I can’t like Willow because *he* likes that one the most.