When two children visit Ike's Kite Shop they learn about kites and how to fly them. Includes instructions for building a kite.

This thorough guide by an expert kitemaker includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for creating and flying more than fifty kites. An easy and comprehensive introduction for anyone interested in these amazing flyers, the book opens with the history and science of kites, followed by a section on kite construction and flying. Organized according to kite types, Greger's book includes chapters on everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese,...

A little monkey needs to rescued when he tries to fly a kite.

The Bear family learns to make and fly a kite.

Curious George loves a good windy day. There are many things he can practice flying--like a kite. Now if only he doesn't get carried away!

Wanda's world is full of objects rather than people, but her perspective on life changes after a magic kite drops her on a desert island.

When Biscuit the puppy and his best friend, Puddles, head to the park to fly kites, they learn that it is not as easy as it looks.

Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860's continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her for the Institute for Colored Youth.

Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist’s consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name. Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory...