This “spell book” was written & illustrated in response to the Oxford Junior Dictionary dropping 40 common words concerning nature & substituting words of the indoor and virtual (eg. otter vs blog).
The illustrations of 20 of these words with poems are indeed spelled binding.
This book is part of the inspiration of Patti Callahan Henry‘s new book The Story She Left Behind.
Author Tom Cox got his books back from publisher Unbound (they went into administration). He's currently selling the copies he got from the publisher in lieu of payment.
Here's his post about it on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/tomcox/p/hurray-i-now-own-my-books-again?utm_sourc...
He's asking for postage plus whatever you can afford of the cover price, which I think is more than fair.
I'm able to post again (for now at least)! I haven't read this book, but I loved the title and the cover. I think I'm going to get it for some of my niblings.
#coverstories #river
@eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickThis was a gentle quiet read. I would put it in a collection with Soil by Camille Dungy, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren: stories of women reflecting their lives and histories in the natural world. But more than that, the natural world is more important than the author at times. Not feel good books, but closer to calls to action than memoirs.
“We are storytelling animals, and for us that indeterminate space is uncomfortable.”
I finished the wee fox and now am on to plans for Citizen Science Month.
pickIf you think this cover is one of the most beautiful you've seen,I can guarantee you, the book is just as beautiful.Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404839913
pickAmy Tan's illustrations are beautiful, and her notes about her observations of the birds that visit her yard are so interesting! She also includes some information that she's learned from expert birders. Unfortunately not all of her observations are happy, and it makes me sad to think of birds getting ill and being in distress, but I guess that's part of nature, too.
Oh no. Everyone loves this and I am struggling. This is taking me back to college where to get my chem degree I had to take some geology and biology classes and was bored outta my mind. I do love that she is using the Māori word Aotearoa for what we call New Zealand.
I hope I can get more interested in this as we go along but 2 chapters in and so far, not so good
I‘m home sick today but twitchy. This is a thoughtful, gentle rumination while I needle felt a prize for a friend.
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