A sensitively written, real-life sory about a boy called Litle Leap Forward, growing up in he 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.
- ISBN: 9781846861147
- Authors: Farrow, Clare; Yue, Guo
- Published: 2008, Barefoot Books
- Themes: change, Chinese Cultural Revolution, Friendship, Struggle
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, China, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 128