Grace Lin
Kite Flying
Dell Dragonfly, 2002
Kite Flying follows the winning Grace Lin formula in all but one surprising aspect: the food (or lack thereof). Mother, Father, and sisters purchase craft materials to assemble a bright bewhiskered dragon-faced kite together. Nice touches include the endpaper illustrations with raw ingredients (glue, sandpaper, string and so forth) in the front, and then finished products and their symbolism in the end (bee kite for industry, goldfish kite for abundance, etc.). Italic font sympathetically bends to the breeze.
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