A truly magical book. Jackie Morris captures the essence of nature perfectly. From Kingfishers stalking a river, a nightmarish Willow tree in the moonlight, to my favourite, the otters showing their agility in the water.

Robert Macfarlane is trying to bring the words of nature back into the limelight and he uses clever wordplay to make that happen. Each word starts off hidden amongst other letters, you have to decipher the word to continue and find a wonderful poem. The best of these was the starlings, you could sense the next page was going to feature the murmuration.

I read this book with my daughter and she loved it, each poem created discussion on the words used, each picture was explored looking for hidden gems, every page was savored.

This is a wonderful book, you've got to get your hands on a copy to experience it.

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