kites

Peter, a cat, has a wonderful time flying his kite one windy day, until a tree gets in the way.

Ms. Frizzle's class flies kites and tries to catch up with one when the wind whisks it away.

Detailed step-by-step instructions on making and flying kites. Covers recreational, figurative and stunt kites.

Reviews the basics of building and flying kits, features general kite-building instructions, and includes illustrated, step-by-step instructions and patterns for creating nineteen paper kites in a variety of animal shapes.

Retells the Chinese legend of how kites became so popular, eventually evolving into a celebration called the Double Ninth Festival; and includes illustrated instructions on how to make a kite.

When a hostile army attacks the warlord's palace in ancient China, Chuan and his friend, Jing Jing, find an ingenious way to scare them off using simple kites. Includes instructions for making a kite from a paper bag.

A rebus story in which Dora and Boots free a kite that has become caught in a tree and follow the map to get the kite to the Rainbow Kite Festival.

When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.

To make him feel better about losing his kite, a boy's grandfather tells him a story about why the Chinese build kites.