![]() ![]() You can do this on social media by using #TheLostWords and tagging PenguinUKBooks and readingagency. We would love to hear feedback about how you use the pack. There are Creature Challenge leaflets to give out to children to help them find each of the creatures and tick them off as they go along. Writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris were spurred into creating their magical book, The Lost Words, by the exclusion of once familiar nature words like fern, otter and starling from. ![]() Each shows a different creature from the book and information about each creature that you can hide around the library or the children’s department or even just lay out on a table. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris created this spellbinding collection in response to the 2007 edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary which introduced new words such as broadband and blog while words relating to the natural world (acorn, wren, otter, willow, to name a few) were lost. Included in the pack are 8 Spotter’s Cards. Hamish Hamilton have created an activity pack to celebrate the first anniversary of this important book’s publication on Friday 5th October 2018. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. ![]() The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. ![]()
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