People feel passionately that The Lost Words offers an invaluable opportunity children and young people to connect with the natural world, especially those who might otherwise least have access to nature. The Lost Words has moved people across the UK to work with charities, book-shops and local communities to raise money to get the book into schools, hospices and care homes. This bestselling and award-winning book has become, as the Guardian puts it, ‘a cultural phenomenon’, finding its way into the lives and dreams of hundreds of thousands of people around the world - inspiring hope, wonder and change. The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris is a work full of wildness, beauty and power. Winner of the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, and nominated for eight national awards The inspiration for writing competitions, nature trails and much more Inspiring grassroots change in education – thousands of schools across the country are now using the book both indoors and outdoors to encourage children to interact with natureĬrowdfunders to get copies into every care home and hospice in BritainĪrt work to be adapted to decorate hospitals and hospicesĪrt exhibition touring the country with record-breaking visitor numbersĭay long music festival and album to tour in 2019 The bestselling poetry book of the last yearĬrowdfunder campaigns to place copies in every school in (so far) over a dozen English counties and all of Scotland and Wales

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