Meet the author

Jackie Morris.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1961

Jackie Morris: Kate Greenaway-winning British illustrator behind The Lost Words / The Lost Spells (with Robert Macfarlane) and her own dragon-and-mythology picture books — luminous watercolour for ages 5+ and adult co-readers.

Jackie Morris is a British author-illustrator born in 1961, best known to children's-book readers as the visual partner of Robert Macfarlane on The Lost Words (2017) and The Lost Spells (2020), beautiful watercolour spell-poem collections that grew out of campaigning to restore nature words to the Oxford Junior Dictionary. Morris also writes and illustrates her own picture books (Tell Me a Dragon, The Snow Leopard, East of the Sun, West of the Moon) and has worked extensively on dragon-and-mythology themed picture books and book covers. Kate Greenaway winner. Her watercolour style is unmistakable, luminous, mythical, deeply atmospheric. A core literary-picture-book illustrator for ages 5+ and adult co-readers.