"The Lost Spells employs Robert Macfarlane’s rapturous language and Jackie Morris’s bewitching illustrations to return language and art to their ancient occupations: building bridges of understanding between human and non-human worlds. More than a mere book, it’s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader’s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration." — Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

"Elegant … There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors." — Wall Street Journal

"This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature … Breathtakingly magical." — Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

"Macfarlane’s lyrics … ring with consonance (“Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls,/ is cast adrift”) and wordplay (“Woodpecker, tree-wrecker”) … Morris’s fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a fox’s snout, birds’ calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark … One to treasure." — Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

"Through deeply humane poems paired with warm illustrations, MacFarlane and Morris invited readers into the space where the enchanting natural world meets the expansive imagination . . . Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling." — Shelf Awareness

"Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness … These painted verses sing and shimmer with a magical exuberance that renders the wild world not parallel, not foreign, but proximate, beckoning, native to our own souls … A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy." — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“An enchanting diversion into the wonder and magic of nature.” — Bulletin