![]() ![]() “Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!” ~ George Bernard Shaw They weren’t happy that these wonderful words (and the things they represent), had been marginalised in a misguided move by a mainstream publication. The acclaimed best-selling author Robert Macfarlane teamed up with the talented illustrator and writer, Jackie Morris, to draw attention to the incomprehensible actions of the Children’s Oxford English Dictionary. Words like fern, kingfisher and bluebell were discarded and ditched in order to make room for technological terms like blog, chatroom and database. In 2007 the Children’s Oxford English Dictionary removed several words pertaining to the natural world. This book is something special, it’s absolutely magical… Not just with her, but also with me and her older, harder-to-please pre-teen sister. ![]() When I purchased The Lost Words for my youngest daughter as a Christmas present I honestly didn’t expect it to be such a hit. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed – fading away like water on stone.” ~ Robert Macfarlane (The Lost Words) The Lost Words “Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. ![]()
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