Jackdaw Jinx

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Rob goes to the local common (aka The Dump) and finds a jackdaw chick there. He takes Joe the Jackdaw home, and keeps him as a pet. Well, he couldn't leave him to die, could he? He causes no end of mess in the house, and then he starts flying into other houses in the street and stealing shiny things from them. The ultimatum comes. Joe must go and live somewhere else. A long way away. But then Joe discovers green glass. Lots of it. And it's Anglo-Saxon! The campaign to save the common is finally going to work, and it's all thanks to the jackdaw!

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Kathy Ashford is an Adult Education Tutor, and previously worked as Director of Communications at the University of Surrey. She likes long country walks, photography, painting and gardening - and reading. As a child she used to munch through huge amounts of fudge while enjoying works by C.S. Lewis, Alan Garner and P.G. Wodehouse. She was the only girl in a family of brothers, and she is now married with four sons! Satoshi Kitamura was born in Tokyo and worked in advertising there before moving to London in 1980. He won the Mother Goose Award for Angry Arthur and he is now one of the most distinguished illustrators in Britain.