Little Leap Forward is an eight-year-old boy with a great imagination growing up in China. He sees the bees dance and he imagines that his silkworms dance to. He is on the journey to find out who he is. His journey is set in modern day China and Little Leap Forward is about to learn about flying a kite, keeping a wild bird and being free. The story is about the value of freedom during the changing times of China.
978-1846861147 Ages 8-12 128 pages
Submitted by C. Wong, Librarian, Maryland USA
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"A sensitively written, real-life story about a boy called Little Leap Forward, growing up in the 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 as Mao Tse Tung's Great Leap Forward policy tightens its grip on China."--from the publisher
Moonbeam Awards Gold Medal Winner 2008, NAPRA Nautilus Award Winner 2010
