“People have a feeling of positivity to it.” “It must be the book – it’s just captured people in a way I haven’t seen before,” she said. Encouraged by tweets from Macfarlane and Morris – who has donated original artwork to the campaign – Beaton was amazed when the donations flooded in. “When I first opened The Lost Words, I just thought: ‘What a magical book,’” said Beaton. Jane Beaton, a school bus driver and travel consultant from Strathyre, Stirling, was moved to raise £25,000 to give the book to all 2,681 schools in Scotland after “a spur of the moment” commitment on Twitter. Now the book, aimed at reviving once-common “natural” words excised from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, will be discovered by a generation of children after a crowdfunding drive to place a copy in every school in Scotland.
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