Little Leap Forward — Guo Yue; Clare Farrow

A sensitively written, real-life story about a boy called Little Leap Forward, growing up in the hutongs of Beijing in the 1960s, at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Little Leap Forward offers children an intimate and immediate account of a child s experiences as Mao Tse Tungs Great Leap Forward policy tightens its grips on China.

Moonbeam Awards Gold Medal Winner 2008, NAPRA Nautilus Award Winner 2010