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…
Nine-year-old Sharon has conflicted feelings towards her copycat little sister and rambunctious toddler brother, who is sent to China for a year to live with relatives.
Written by the author who is a painter and theatre artist, this book explores his Japanese American identity through a stylistic combination of twentieth-century American pop art and traditional eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock…
