Little Leap Forward

By Guo Yue

Subjects: Family life, fiction, Communism, fiction, Liberty, Friendship, fiction, Families, Freedom, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Children's fiction, Communism, Juvenile fiction, History, China, fiction, Family life, Friendship

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.