A family card game for 2-4 players based on The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane.
The aim of the game is to rescue as many birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds endangered list as possible ... in the limited time that is available! It is a game of skill, but also a game of wonder.
Players will immerse themselves in the extraordinary art of Jackie Morris and the textual magic of Robert Macfarlane, all brought together by Michael Rieneck, a leading European game designer with over 60 published games to his credit.
A family card game for 2-4 players based on The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane.
The aim of the game is to rescue as many birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds endangered list as possible ... in the limited time that is available! It is a game of skill, but also a game of wonder.
Players will immerse themselves in the extraordinary art of Jackie Morris and the textual magic of Robert Macfarlane, all brought together by Michael Rieneck, a leading European game designer with over 60 published games to his credit.
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Aug 4, 2026 |
| Specifications | pages | 225 mm x 165 mm |
| Keywords | Nature Book; Robert Bateman; The Silent Unwinding; Glen Loates; The Backyard Bird Chronicles; Something About a Bear; Outside Magazine; National Geographic; Ornithology; Bird Reference Guide; The Cornell Lab; David Suzuki; The Life of Birds; Birds & Blooms; Dumb Birds of North America; The Serviceberry; Avian; |
| Illustrated by |
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. Her 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. |
| Illustrated by |
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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. Her 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. |