Little Leap Forward
Subtitle: a boy in Beijing
By: by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; illustrated by Helen Cann.
Contributors: Farrow, Clare.; Cann, Helen, 1969- ill.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781846861147
Subjects: Freedom -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Family life -- China -- Fiction; Communism -- Fiction; China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Juvenile fiction; China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction; Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.