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The Lost Words
by Robert Macfarlane
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 They had been replaced by technology related terms.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.