Accordion Books
By Jackie Morris
The first pair in a series of illustrated folding gift books featuring foxes and otters.
Publication date: TBC
Support this projectBlue Otter Luggage Tag
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 8
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Book No 1: Fox
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Book No 2: Otter
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Fox & Postcards
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- *Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Otter & Postcards
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Pack
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Three Foxes
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- Three bookmarks (designed by Jackie)
Three Otters
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- Three bookmarks (designed by Jackie)
Accordion Pack & Postcards
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Many Foxes Print
Two folding books (fox and otter) plus a giclée print with deckled edges (750 x 560 mm) featuring many foxes, signed by Jackie.
ONLY 20 AVAILABLE
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Many Otters Print
Two folding books (fox and otter) plus a giclée print with deckled edges (750 x 560 mm) featuring many otters, signed by Jackie.
ONLY 20 AVAILABLE
Otter Original No 1
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 6
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 4
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 5
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 7
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Soul of a Fox Original
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Studio Visit
A rare chance for you and a friend to spend half a day with Jackie in her studio / lair / den / cave on the Pembrokeshire cost. As Robert Macfarlane describes it: 'every corner has its treasures here, from ultramarine jay wing-feathers to labyrinth stones to a barn-owl’s foot, a rook’s beak, tumbling golden otters, birch bark bearing words, and hundred-year-old paints sleeping in their boxes.'
Date TBA by email. Travel to studio not included. Guests must be over 18.
ONLY ONE VISIT AVAILABLE
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- Both Accordion Books (signed by Jackie on site)
- Set of Fox & Otter Postcards
- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Original Fox Accordion
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Original Otter Accordion
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
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Fox Original No 1
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Foxed Unwinding
A one-off copy of The Silent Unwinding, doodled in throughout by Jackie using Deep Deep Light festive paints and water from Saint Wite's Well in Dorset (Saint Wite or Candida was a Saxon goddess). There are foxes painted on each chapter opener.
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- Both Accordion Books (fox and other)
- Set of Fox & Otter Postcard
- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
An Enhanced Unwinding
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Fox Original No 2
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Fox Original No 3
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Fox Original No 4
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Fox Original no 5
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 2
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 3
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 4
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 5
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Otter Original No 7
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox No 1
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox No 2
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 3
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 6
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- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
A Hand-Painted Quiet Music
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- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I get my book delivered to?
How do supporter names work?
Will the book and rewards that I receive look the same as the images shown on the Unbound website?
Books are a beautiful technology that has lasted for centuries.
Accordion Books are an exciting new series created by Jackie Morris and published by Unbound.
An Accordion Book doesn’t open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text – poems, descriptions, invocations – inspired by the same animal.
Together they work as spell to summon the animal’s spirit. Jackie has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which haven’t been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water.
The first six Accordions will be published over the next year:
Accordion Book No 1 – Fox
Accordion Book No 2 – Otter
Accordion Book No 3 – Hare (launched Oct 21)
Accordion Book No 4 – Owl (launched Oct 21)
Accordion Book No 5 – Hound (launched May 22)
Accordion Book No 6 – Cat (launched May 22)
They will be beautifully produced, printed on 440 gsm card, with cloth bound boards foiled and blind debossed with a picture of the animal on the front. (they are the same size as the classic Beatrix Potter books). They will be designed by Alison O'Toole, who has worked with Jackie on all her recent books, including The Lost Words and The Unwinding.
Like real accordions, they are wonderful to play with (but also look good hanging on wall).
They will make beautiful gifts and in time will form a library of nature, which anyone who loves Jackie’s work will want to collect and treasure.
Quick select rewards
Blue Otter Luggage Tag
PLUS:
- Bookmark (illustrated by Jackie)
Blue Fox no 8
PLUS:
- Bookmark (designed by Jackie)
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Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales, with cats and dogs for company. 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. In the same year she published The Unwinding with Unbound, and they have committed to re-issuing and re-designing her backlist beginning with Song of the Golden Hare (Sep 2020) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Mar 2021) and The Wild Swans (Mar 2021).
- 21st October 2021 So Nearly Almost
I've been wanting to write an update on here for a while, but life has been so busy. First, let me welcome new supporters to The Accordion Books page. As I type the project is sitting at 99% funded. 355 of you have taken it to this place. By the time I finish typing it may be on 100%.
Today is the publication day for The Wild Cards, and they are flying into and out of bookshops in the UK. ( You…
21st August 2021 Just over half wayThe week has been a curious one, devoted to the Book of Birds, trying to get to grips with feathered things, but also there have been a series of events building, and a feeling that perhaps, just perhaps, these events won't be cancelled. So, I thought I would list them here:
The next is Laugharne Weekend Festival that is so full with amazing folk that I am part of the 'and much more'.
…10th August 2021 Work and ProgressThis is the first update on the Accordion Books page, and I would love to extend a huge welcome to the 164 people who have funded this curious project so far. It's really wonderful to have you here as early adopters of the newest of my ventures. I'm going to mirror this posting on the Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone page also, so hope you won't be disappointed if you support both projects that the posts…
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