The Lost Spells

Review Elegant … There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors. ― Wall Street JournalThis unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature … Breathtakingly magical. ― Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEWSMacfarlane’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. ― Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWMacfarlane 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