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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Barkham

To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds

Painting of two turtle doves
Turtle doves, from The Book of Birds. Photograph: Jackie Morris

When the artist Jackie Morris collaborated with the writer Robert Macfarlane to celebrate the names of plants and animals controversially removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, they never imagined their book, The Lost Words, would become a cultural phenomenon.

Grassroots crowdfunding ensured the book was bought and donated to more than three-quarters of primary schools in England, Wales and Scotland and to every hospice in the country.

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