Login
Which books help us reconnect with nature? with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris | Ask Penguin
In this episode of Ask Penguin, Rhianna is joined by creative duo, author Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris to discuss their latest collaboration, The Books of Birds, a beautifully illustrated book that takes a poetic look at some of natures most unique and fascinating birds. Plus they give you more book recommendations for books that explore the British landscapes and our favourite anthropomorphised animals as main characters.
Discover all the books mentioned in this episode here: https://bit.ly/4wKzgqb
About the book
The Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to Yellowhammer, all of which are presently declining or endangered in Britain. Inspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up, this is a field guide with a difference. It asks not ‘What is that bird?’, but ‘Who is that bird?’ It shows its readers how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them.
About the authors
Robert Macfarlane is a Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling authors, whose books include Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.
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, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. She is the internationally 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. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words.
For more information about the National Year of Reading, click here https://goallin.org.uk
Follow us here:
Website | http://www.penguin.co.uk
Instagram | / askpenguinpodcast
Facebook | / penguinbooks
Chapters
00:00 - 01:54 | Episode Introduction
01:54 - 03:07 | Audiobook Extract: The Black-Throated Diver
03:07 - 04:36 | Welcome
04:36 - 05:52 | The Black-Throated Diver and the "Loon" in Heated Rivalry
05:52 - 08:35 | What is your favourite bird?
08:35 - 09:35 | How do Cuckoo's disguise their eggs?
09:35 - 11:15 | The Spirit of the Curlew
11:15 - 12:49 | What makes the Book of Birds different from a field guide?
12:49 - 14:13 | What childhood experiences influenced your art?
14:13 - 16:30 | How is The Book of Birds structured?
16:30 - 17:51 | Are there less birds in the UK now?
17:51 - 18:41 | Recognising Presence vs. Absence
18:41 - 20:41 | Birds, Grief, and Crossers of the Great Threshold
20:41 - 22:58 | Personal Loss and the Memory of Lapwings
22:58 - 24:34 | How did conservation bring back the Red Kite bird?
24:34 - 26:10 | The Flight of the Six-Week-Old Puffling
26:10 - 27:32 | The Extraordinary Organ-Shrinking Godwit
27:32 - 28:55 | Feminist Creches and Lads' Holidays
28:55 - 30:57 | The Challenge of Capturing Flight
30:57 - 33:04 | National Year of Reading: Impactful Books
33:04 - 34:02 | What are your tips for reading everyday?
34:02 - 35:36 | Audiobook Extract: The Capercaillie
35:36 - 36:58 | Guest Book Recommendations: J.A. Baker's The Peregrine
36:58 - 38:09 | What would your Dæmon be?
38:09 - 39:53 | Evoking the UK Landscape: The Living Mountain & Benjamin Myer's Cuddy
39:53 - 41:21 | Concluding Thoughts and Outro
#BookRecommendations #BookSuggestions #Nature #PenguinBooks #Podcast #BookPodcast #Booktube #birds #Podcast #bookpodcast
