Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language

The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlance, illus. Jackie Morris | Anansi International

Back in 2017, after learning that the Junior Oxford Dictionary was going to be cutting out forty nature-related words and replacing them with words like broadband, cut-and-paste, blog, and attachment, nature writer Robert MacFarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris decided to create something beautiful in response: a book called The Lost Words in which the…