By Jackie Morris (author) , Jackie Morris (illustrator)
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An Accordion Book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest.
The other is filled with text - poems, descriptions, invocations - inspired by the same animal.
Together they work as spells to summon the animal's spirit.
Jackie Morris is a bestselling writer and artist. Her almost uncanny ability to draw and paint living landscapes and wildlife began around the age of six when she watched her father draw a lapwing and wanted to learn the same magic. Born in Birmingham, she grew up in Evesham, but has lived for a long time in Wales, in “a small cottage held together by spiders’ webs”.
As a writer and illustrator she has many books to her name; of which The Lost Words , in collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, is the best known. For Otter-Barry Books she has written, among others, the three much-loved Mrs Noah books , The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes and Something About a Bear .
Her internationally bestselling picture books for Frances Lincoln are Ted Hughes’ How the Whale Became ; Mariana and the Merchild; The Snow Leopard; Can You See a Little Bear?; The Snow Whale; Lord of the Forest; as well as those she has both written and illustrated , The Seal Children; The Time of the Lion; Little One We Knew You’d Come; Tell Me a Dragon; The Cat and the Fiddle: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes; The Ice Bear . She has also written and illustrated a critically acclaimed novel for older children, East of the Sun, West of the Moon .
In 2019 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustration of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane . In her acceptance speech, Jackie Morris, said: “The times ahead are challenging. It seems to me that artists, writers, musicians have one job at the moment – to help to tell the truth about what is happening to this small and fragile world we inhabit, to re-engage with the natural world, to inspire and to imagine better ways to live. Because there is no Planet B and we are at a turning point. And because in order to make anything happen it first needs to be imagined. And as writers and illustrators for children we grow the readers and thinkers of the future.
“I’m learning so much as I watch our young people call politicians to account. Together we can make a change. And we must. While politicians nod and pretend to listen to Greta Thunberg, declare Climate Emergencies, then continue with ‘business as usual’ finding money always for bombs and seldom for books we need to stand beside these children and hold our deceitful leaders to account.”
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Accordion Book and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-10 years old
Accordion Book features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, The Natural World, Poetry Books for Children, Art and Design, Recommendations, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Educational: Arts, general, Educational material
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Accordion Book was written by Jackie Morris and published by Graffeg
Accordion Book has 180 pages
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