Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing by Guo Yue, Clare Farrow, Helen Cann (Illustrator)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 leaning 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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...In spare, lyrical prose, Yue and Farrow capture the fragile idyll, hard-won and precarious, of Yue’s fictional counterpart, 7-year-old Little Leap Forward, and his family.
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