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For #InternationalChildrensBookDay, I want to tell a story about generosity & hope, about childhood & the natural world, and about some remarkable acts of everyday kindness. I want to tell it by way of heartfelt thanks. The story begins with a charm of goldfinches... 
...which were painted by @JackieMorrisArt onto & into our The Lost Words: A Spell Book. The Lost Words took 20 common nature words – from acorn to wren – that had fallen, due to lack of use, out of a well-known children's dictionary & sought to conjure them back into being. We...
...had no hopes for our book beyond that it might, in Jackie's phrase, "send children to sleep dreaming of wild things". It was published on 2nd October. Strange things began to happen almost immediately. People began to send us photos & videos of children reading the book...
