The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words , The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells , a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away. "Elegant … There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors." ― Wall Street Journal "This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature … Breathtakingly magical." ― Kirkus , STARRED REVIEW "Macfarlane’s lyrics … ring with consonance (“Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls,/ is cast adrift”) and wordplay (“Woodpecker, tree-wrecker”) … Morris’s fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a fox’s snout, birds’ calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark … One to treasure." ― Publisher's Weekly , STARRED REVIEW "Through deeply humane poems paired with warm illustrations, MacFarlane and Morris invited readers into the space where the enchanting natural world meets the expansive imagination . . . Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling." ― Shelf Awareness "Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness … These painted verses sing and shimmer with a magical exuberance that renders the wild world not parallel, not foreign, but proximate, beckoning, native to our own souls … A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy." ― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings “An enchanting diversion into the wonder and magic of nature.” ― Bulletin The Lost Spells employs Robert Macfarlane’s rapturous language and Jackie Morris’s bewitching illustrations to return language and art to their ancient occupations: building bridges of understanding between human and non-human worlds. More than a mere book, it’s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader’s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration. -- Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity ROBERT MACFARLANE 's  Sunday Times - and  New York Times -bestselling books include  Is a River Alive? ,  Underland ,  Landmarks ,  The Old Ways ,  The Wild Places  and  Mountains of the Mind , as well as a book-length prose-poem,  Ness . His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including  River  and  Mountain , both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art,  The Lost Words  and  The Lost Spells . In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic-novel re-telling of the  Epic of Gilgamesh . JACKIE MORRIS has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics  Tell Me a Dragon  and  East of the Sun, West of the Moon  and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages,  Wild Folk , co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature,  The House Without Windows . She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of  The Lost Words  and  The Lost Spells , two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for  The Lost Words . Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the  New Statesman , Independent  and  Guardian  among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College.