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The Cat and the Cuckoo

The Cat and the Cuckoo

by Ted Hughes (Author), Flora McDonnell (Illustrator)

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

This collection of Ted Hughes's animal poems for younger readers is accompanied by illustrations from Flora McDonnell.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 64
 Edition: First Edition By Number String
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 04 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0571210635
ISBN 13: 9780571210633

Media Reviews
'Though aimed at the very youngest readers, the sheer energy of these little poems, the agility of the language, their lightness of their tongue-in-cheek wit give them a universal appeal.' Glasgow Herald
Author Bio
Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe