You are in for a treat, as the book is an absolute gem for nature lovers: it's by Robert Macfarlane (poems) & Jackie Morris (art). They have put the poems to music too, and extremely successful touring concerts. It's a blessing to let you know about it! 🙏 Schools love it.
#TheLostWords
#SpellSongs
#TheLostWords
#SpellSongs
December 8, 2024 at 8:50 AM
You are in for a treat, as the book is an absolute gem for nature lovers: it's by Robert Macfarlane (poems) & Jackie Morris (art). They have put the poems to music too, and extremely successful touring concerts. It's a blessing to let you know about it! 🙏 Schools love it.
#TheLostWords
#SpellSongs
#TheLostWords
#SpellSongs
Snakes alive! Over 10 Adder sightings today from the Osprey hide as they recharged their batteries in the sun. Our usual Osps were about and the 'extra' male from last year was trying out his new platform. (Photo by
North Lancs Wildlife Group x.com/NLancsWildlife) @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
North Lancs Wildlife Group x.com/NLancsWildlife) @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
One of #TheLostWords
“Starlings are flying in converging flocks towards their roosting place”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
January 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
One of #TheLostWords
Really enjoyed this article by Emily Donaldson in the @theglobeandmail.com and I can’t wait to read #IsARiverAlive by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social . I use his #TheLostWords in #ZOO2700
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks a question he couldn’t ignore: Is a river alive?
The author and naturalist visited three rivers (including one in Canada) to explore what it means to give the waterways the same rights as people
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Really enjoyed this article by Emily Donaldson in the @theglobeandmail.com and I can’t wait to read #IsARiverAlive by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social . I use his #TheLostWords in #ZOO2700
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
Very happy half hour spent with the kids reading out spells from @RobGMacfarlane #TheLostWords
November 21, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Very happy half hour spent with the kids reading out spells from @RobGMacfarlane #TheLostWords
Inspired by #jackiemorris and #benrothery the children are producing some incredible art this term in Y5/6. #wildlife #wildlifeart #thelostspells #thelostwords #primaryart #sketchbooks Reading inspires Art!
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Inspired by #jackiemorris and #benrothery the children are producing some incredible art this term in Y5/6. #wildlife #wildlifeart #thelostspells #thelostwords #primaryart #sketchbooks Reading inspires Art!
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 6 days to reach its target, and £940 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
December 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 6 days to reach its target, and £940 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
I had a fab time today in Ulva and Lochdon Primary Schools, Isle of Mull, sharing and poetry-making with #TheLostWords. Read some great acrostics the pupils had already produced, and we had great fun with Otter and lots of words beginning with S. @RobGMacfarlane @JackieMorrisArt
November 8, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I had a fab time today in Ulva and Lochdon Primary Schools, Isle of Mull, sharing and poetry-making with #TheLostWords. Read some great acrostics the pupils had already produced, and we had great fun with Otter and lots of words beginning with S. @RobGMacfarlane @JackieMorrisArt
@RobGMacfarlane Hello Robert, I'm hoping to record myself reading some poems for our brand-new local radio station and to share in our local Facebook family support groups (Isle of Mull). Is it okay if I read from #TheLostWords?
November 8, 2024 at 3:01 AM
@RobGMacfarlane Hello Robert, I'm hoping to record myself reading some poems for our brand-new local radio station and to share in our local Facebook family support groups (Isle of Mull). Is it okay if I read from #TheLostWords?
Jamie’s day job was with @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social but I met him when were both crowdfunding to buy copies of #TheLostWords for schools in our counties. His campaign, characteristically went many extra miles, as he walked across England, visiting schools along the way to enlighten & delight.
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Jamie’s day job was with @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social but I met him when were both crowdfunding to buy copies of #TheLostWords for schools in our counties. His campaign, characteristically went many extra miles, as he walked across England, visiting schools along the way to enlighten & delight.
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 4 days to reach its target, and £349 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 AM
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 4 days to reach its target, and £349 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
I think the painting of the branch this kingfisher is sitting on is one of the best examples of watercolour I’ve seen a child do. It’s beautiful - look at the range of colours #primaryart #watercolour #thelostwords
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I think the painting of the branch this kingfisher is sitting on is one of the best examples of watercolour I’ve seen a child do. It’s beautiful - look at the range of colours #primaryart #watercolour #thelostwords
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 6 days to reach its target, and £940 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
December 3, 2024 at 2:41 AM
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 6 days to reach its target, and £940 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
It’s May, so it must be time to trot out my bluebells poem again. Here with a page from the wonderful #TheLostWords by @JackieMorris and @RobGMacfarlane whose paintings and wordspells are as intoxicating as the bluebell's scent.
"This purple haze is the ghost of a lost wood..."
"This purple haze is the ghost of a lost wood..."
November 8, 2024 at 3:50 AM
It’s May, so it must be time to trot out my bluebells poem again. Here with a page from the wonderful #TheLostWords by @JackieMorris and @RobGMacfarlane whose paintings and wordspells are as intoxicating as the bluebell's scent.
"This purple haze is the ghost of a lost wood..."
"This purple haze is the ghost of a lost wood..."
August 14, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Recyclable brown paper decorated: check, seeds selected: check, copies of The Lost Words collected: check, operation kids' presents is go! Love the idea of siblings/families sharing the magic, spellbound at Christmas. #TheLostWords #Nature @JackieMorrisArt @RobGMacfarlane
November 18, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Recyclable brown paper decorated: check, seeds selected: check, copies of The Lost Words collected: check, operation kids' presents is go! Love the idea of siblings/families sharing the magic, spellbound at Christmas. #TheLostWords #Nature @JackieMorrisArt @RobGMacfarlane
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 7 days to reach its target, and £1377 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 AM
#TheLostWords Yorkshire has 7 days to reach its target, and £1377 to raise. £13 gives a school the most powerful children's nature book in years. The rewards offered include original art & nature writing workshops. Please chip in if you can http://crowdfunder.co.uk/TLWYorkshire...
Finally visited the Jackie Morris exhibition at Rheged. Wonderful. I have always been a fan of #TheLostWords Spell Book with Robert MacFarlane. Also relevant to a new @saperep4c.bsky.social course I was involved in developing with Little Chatters www.sapere.org.uk/innovate-p4c...
September 1, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Finally visited the Jackie Morris exhibition at Rheged. Wonderful. I have always been a fan of #TheLostWords Spell Book with Robert MacFarlane. Also relevant to a new @saperep4c.bsky.social course I was involved in developing with Little Chatters www.sapere.org.uk/innovate-p4c...
agreed, then listen to the spell songs on YouTube channel
@thelostwords-spellsongs424
@thelostwords-spellsongs424
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
agreed, then listen to the spell songs on YouTube channel
@thelostwords-spellsongs424
@thelostwords-spellsongs424
Love this term! We use The Lost Words by #robertmacfarlane & #jackiemorris to inspire artwork based on the beauty of nature. A term for patience, care and resilience. We look in detail and then super detail and it’s when children take a giant leap. #primaryart This is just the start! #thelostwords
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Love this term! We use The Lost Words by #robertmacfarlane & #jackiemorris to inspire artwork based on the beauty of nature. A term for patience, care and resilience. We look in detail and then super detail and it’s when children take a giant leap. #primaryart This is just the start! #thelostwords
"Good names, well used, help us see and they help us care. We find it hard to love what we cannot give a name to." #taxonomy #thelostwords #naturalhistory #naturalsciencecollections
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x.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Good names, well used, help us see and they help us care. We find it hard to love what we cannot give a name to." #taxonomy #thelostwords #naturalhistory #naturalsciencecollections
x.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
x.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
Another lovely thing about my end-of-tour visit with my cousin Adam in upstate New York was spotting @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & #JackieMorris’s beautiful #book #TheLostWords tucked under the well-stocked bookcase in Adam’s 5-year-old son Julian’s room! Clearly a child of excellent taste.
November 28, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Another lovely thing about my end-of-tour visit with my cousin Adam in upstate New York was spotting @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & #JackieMorris’s beautiful #book #TheLostWords tucked under the well-stocked bookcase in Adam’s 5-year-old son Julian’s room! Clearly a child of excellent taste.
Massive thank you to Saffron Garside for an excellent session for #CRI1009 #ImaginingCrime From #TheLittleGreyMen to #TheLorax and #TheLostWords who knew children's literature could expand our #CriminologicalImagination so far!
November 28, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Massive thank you to Saffron Garside for an excellent session for #CRI1009 #ImaginingCrime From #TheLittleGreyMen to #TheLorax and #TheLostWords who knew children's literature could expand our #CriminologicalImagination so far!
Jamie’s day job was with @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social but I met him when we were both crowdfunding to buy copies of #TheLostWords for schools in our counties. His campaign, characteristically, went many extra miles, as he walked across England, visiting schools along the way to enlighten & delight.
April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Jamie’s day job was with @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social but I met him when we were both crowdfunding to buy copies of #TheLostWords for schools in our counties. His campaign, characteristically, went many extra miles, as he walked across England, visiting schools along the way to enlighten & delight.