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.)
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the
species survive?
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Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native
pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for
endangered ...
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