Barry Hines' 1968 novel Kes blew into schools, along with Ted Hughes' The Hawk in the Wind (1957) and mixed-ability teaching.
The kestrel and the hawk weren't domestic pets, they weren't cute, and they weren't subject to 'rescue' and operations on TV shows.
Kes is this week's Book at Bedtime. (R4, weekdays, 10.45pm.)
A blackbird with a taste for musicals | Letters
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*Jane Horne *wonders if other readers hear well-known tunes in blackbird
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Reading Josie George’s article discussing her resident blackbird and its
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