The Lost Words

BEAUTIFUL

Well... the illustrations are wonderful, one couldn't get anything less from Jackie Morris. The poetry is less impressive, though.

Here hunts heron. Here haunts heron.
Huge-hinged heron. Grey-winged weapon.
Eked from iron and wreaked from blue and
beaked with steel: heron, statue, seeks eel.

This is not a book for children. Adults, though, I can think of many who would love it, who'd get a sappy smile upon seeing its size, feeling its heft, and stepping respectfully in. It's a gentle, sweetly comforting tome; Milne's Hundred Acre Wood in sepia. One could read it in an hour; my first pass took me a week. I enjoyed sipping, leaving it open to a word or illustration, stopping a few times each day to breathe it in.