The Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books

Shortlist 2026

Wild Folk

Tales from the Stones

By Jackie Morris & Tamsin Abbott

From a unique collaboration between the co-author of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells and an acclaimed visual artist comes seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and transformed by word and image into portals between past and future.

About Jackie Morris & Tamsin Abbott

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.

Tamsin Abbott has been creating painted stained-glass panels from her Herefordshire home for over twenty years. Her work is inspired by the British landscape, folklore and fairytale. Her pursuit of rural life began at Stirling University, where she studied Medieval Literature. Wild Folk is her first book as a stained-glass illustrator.

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