![]() ![]() She owns the land and her love song to the wild rules the twilight. Signed copies are available from Solva Woollen Mill, and copies can be found in all good independent bookshops. Published in 2020, there are wonderful explorer’s notes for use in school or home schooling. It’s an untamed magic, this conjuring with words and coloured water, chasing ‘the spirit of wild’. Written by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by me, The Lost Spells is the small sister to The Lost Words. Learning the shape of the words and the shape of the fox, so each is drawn from the other, is a wild and a beautiful challenge. Jackie says, "‘Red Fox’ by Robert Macfarlane demands red paint for her bright pelt. Rather than trying to see the fox full and square, it was of course to be about the ways these enigmatic creatures slip in and out of our lives, glimpsed and sensed at the edges of sight and hearing: 'The shadow that slips through a hole in the hedge.'" I saw the blur of a brush, a pair of glowing green eyes, my heart raced – and there was the spell. ![]() And then, while I was cycling late one night back down the street near my suburban house, a vixen hurtled across the road in front of me, passing a yard in front of my whirring wheels before vanishing into a neighbour’s garden. That felt like the right habitat in which to conjure up the fox. A beautiful new spell book Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but fresh in its form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure that introduces a beautiful. Jackie Morris sent me a notebook with her paintings of foxes on its cover and pages. I n this new musical, spawned by the children’s book from Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, we are led into an enchanting woodland world by Jay, who is so overcome by nerves on her first day. "For several weeks, she wouldn’t break cover, wouldn’t show herself. ![]()
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