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The House Without Windows

  • The House Without Windows

  • For the adventurer in your life - young or old - discover a dazzling lost classic and escape to distant shores...

    Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away - first to the Meadow, then to the Sea, and finally to the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow their daughter, trying to bring her home safe, but Eepersip has other ideas...

    Republished by Penguin with a new introduction and hand-inked illustrations by beloved artist Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows is a timeless fable about wildness, freedom and the redemptive power of the natural world.

    'I can safely promise joy to any reader of The House Without Windows. Perfection' Eleanor Farjeon, winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christ­ian Andersen Award

    'Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times' Nick Drake

    'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the author' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China

The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
The House Without Windows
The House Without Windows
Barbara Newhall Follett , Jackie Morris
The Lost Words
The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
The Lost Words
The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
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Events

The Lost Spells: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris in conversation, 1st October
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Features

Charlie Mackesy among artists creating charity prints to celebrate Penguin’s 85th birthday

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse creator joins Dapo Adeola, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Jackie Morris and Vashti Harrison to raise funds for the National Literacy Trust.
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Features

‘I feared I would never paint again’: Behind the cover of ‘The Lost Spells’

After The Lost Words, illustrator Jackie Morris decided to collaborate once again with writer Robert Macfarlane. But a family tragedy meant she had to work in the toughest of circumstances. Here she shares her story, and reveals the beautiful artwork itself.
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News

Illustrator of 'The Lost Words' Jackie Morris is awarded the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal

The prestigious medal is the only prize in the UK to solely reward outstanding illustration in a children's book.
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News

Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris to collaborate on 'The Book of Birds'

Authors of The Lost Words are creating a new kind of field guide to celebrate the nearly 70 species of birds currently in severe decline in the UK.
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Features

Jackie Morris creating artwork for the Book of Birds

Birds are disappearing from our lives and landscapes, says Jackie Morris, discussing her new collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, which seeks to celebrate and defend Britain's most threatened bird species.
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The Lost Words wins the Beautiful Book Award at this year's Books Are My Bag Reader's Awards

Jackie Morris is the bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. She also illustrated and introduced a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett's lost classic of wild literature, The House Without Windows. As an author, Jackie Morris has produced over forty beloved children's books; as an artist she has also worked with the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian, among others. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for The Lost Words in 2018. Jackie lives in a cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire, where she is now working on her forthcoming third book with long-time collaborator, Robert Macfarlane: The Book of Birds.

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