Bibliograph

Little Leap Forward, a boy in Beijing, by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; illustrated by Helen Cann

Type

Label

Little Leap Forward, a boy in Beijing, by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; illustrated by Helen Cann

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Intended audience

810L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Little Leap Forward

Oclc number

183926311

Responsibility statement

by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; illustrated by Helen Cann

Sub title

a boy in Beijing

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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification