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Robert Macfarlane.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1976

Robert Macfarlane: British nature writer behind The Lost Words and The Lost Spells (with Jackie Morris) — gift-shelf spell-poem collections about restoring everyday nature words, for ages 5+ and adult co-readers.

Robert Macfarlane is a British author born in 1976, best known to children's-book readers as the writer of The Lost Words (2017) and The Lost Spells (2020), illustrated by Jackie Morris, beautiful spell-poem collections that grew out of campaigning to restore everyday nature words (acorn, kingfisher, bramble) to the Oxford Junior Dictionary. He also wrote The Gifts of Reading and a series of acclaimed adult nature-writing books (The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Underland, out of scope for children's enrichment). Macfarlane is one of the defining contemporary nature writers in English, and his children's titles with Morris have become genuine gift-shelf staples. Strong appeal for ages 5+ and adult co-readers.