Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk, co-created with Tamsin Abbott. In 2020 she introduced and illustrated a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows.
Morris is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator, with Robert Macfarlane, of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words. Morris and Macfarlane's latest bestselling collaboration is The Book of Birds.
Jackie Morris's artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College.
