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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
inspiring
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Absolutely gorgeous paintings and poetry. I loved it so much I also got the audio of the poems which have bird songs women into readings. This is a beautiful book. I have a small portable book, and a table art book size too
Gorgeous illustrations, but the text didn't do much for my reading experience.
This is more of a treasure, and artifact, than a book. It's an incredible project--poems and pictures for each of the 40 natural beings whose names were recently removed from a major children's dictionary. Wren, ivy, bluebell, newt.... The illustrations are astounding and the poems (all of which are acrostic) have some vigorous moments as well. My biggest peeve is a printing issue: the watercolor illustrations were originally embellished with gold leaf, which has a beautiful effect in the scanned images. However, the image color is not consistent throughout the book, which means that the gold leaf changes color drastically from page to page, greenish on one page and almost copper on others. It's a minor peeve (the kind I probably only notice because I'm married to a printmaker), but I hope it's sorted out in future printings.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I saw this as an exhibition at Nyman's Garden and loved the combination of poetry and pictures but needed to be able to revisit the poems and speak them aloud. So I bought a copy of the book. I hadn't realised that there were more poems in the book than in the exhibition so I'm glad I did. My current favourite is Newt but I'm sure that as I revisit them that will change, and change again, and change once more.
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October 2020
Listened to as an audiobook. It has mixed readers of the poems. I loved Edith Bowman‘s. So much inflection. And she read Newt in a delightful way.
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October 2020
Listened to as an audiobook. It has mixed readers of the poems. I loved Edith Bowman‘s. So much inflection. And she read Newt in a delightful way.
I have a tradition each year to try and find a book I can read in a day that will be some kind of foretelling of the reading year to come. I almost didn’t this year. Then I picked up The Lost Words, a spell book in case there’s ever a time people can’t remember nature, and I’m so so glad I did as I was bowled over by this. Stunning art, poems and intention. Quirky. Different. Just how I want my reading in 2018. Perfect.
Beautiful. If I had kids I'd read it to them every week.