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Little Leap Forward : a boy in Beijing / Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; [illustrations by] Helen Cann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Barefoot Books, 2008.Description: 126 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1846861144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781846861147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Yue, Guo Available 33111006758367
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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.

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