Little Leap Forward : a boy in Beijing / Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; [illustrations by] Helen Cann.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Barefoot Books, 2008.Description: 126 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1846861144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781846861147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Yue, Guo | Available | 33111006758367 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A sensitively written, real-life sory about a boy called Litle Leap Forward, growing up in he hutongs of Beijing in the 1960's, at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Little Leap offers children an intimate and immediate account of a child's experiences
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. Includes author's notes on his childhood in Beijing, life under Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution.