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The House Without Windows (Hardcover)
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The House Without Windows (Hardcover)
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'An enchanting book. These pages simply quiver with the beauty,
happiness and vigour of forests, seas and mountains . . . I can
safely promise joy to any reader of it. Perfection' Eleanor
Farjeon, Winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian
Andersen Award Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature
writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape -
beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words
creator Jackie Morris 'Miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a
dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by
Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our
own bewildered times' Nick Drake Little Eepersip doesn't want to
live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away
to live in the wild - first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and
finally in the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow her at
first, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the
stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more,
following her wild heart out of the door and far away... Barbara
Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The
House Without Windows in 1927. The book went on to become a
million-copy bestseller. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara
followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine - dissatisfied
with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she
walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared. Penguin are
delighted to republish Barbara Newhall Follett's extraordinary
feminist fable for the next generation of nature lovers and
escapees to discover and cherish. Newly introduced by Jackie
Morris, and filled with her beautifully inked artwork, The House
Without Windows is an irresistible paean to the natural world and
its transcendent effect on the human heart. 'A classic, as
miraculous and awe-inspiring as the nine-year-old author. Jackie
Morris portrays the artistic elegance of the eastern ink with the
wisdom of the West' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China
Praise for The Lost Words 'Breathtaking . . . Jackie Morris has
created something that you could spend all day looking at' New
Statesman 'Luminous' Sunday Times 'Sumptuous . . . A book combining
meticulous wordcraft with exquisite illustrations deftly restores
language describing the natural world to the children's
lexicon...The Lost Words is a beautiful book and an important one'
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