Jim’s Reviews > H is for Hawk > Status Update

I looked up at the top of my old bookshelves. There, dusty and unread for years, were all the animal books of my childhood. I'd loved these books...But I hated them too. Because they never had happy endings. Tarka the otter was killed by hounds. The falcons died of pesticide poisoning. A man with a spade beat to death the otter in "Ring of Bright Water"....