Books with title The Kites Are Flying!

A most moving tale celebrating the bright light of humanity surviving even in the darkest conflict.Travelling to the West Bank to witness first hand what life is like for Palestinians and Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall, journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic Palestinian boy, Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive tree while Said makes another of his kites. When Said takes Max home, the reporter learns of the terrible events in the family’s past and begins to understand why Said does not speak. Told from both Max’s and Said’s points of view, Morpurgo has created a beautiful tale of tragedy and hope with an ending that rings with joy.

This is a most moving tale celebrating the bright light of humanity surviving even in the darkest conflict. Travelling to the West Bank to witness first hand what life is like for Palestinians and Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall, journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic Palestinian boy, Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive tree while Said makes another of his kites. When Said takes Max home, the reporter learns of the terrible events in the family's past and begins to understand why Said does not speak. Told from both Max's and Said's points of view, Morpurgo has created a beautiful tale of tragedy and hope with an ending that rings with joy. With an afterword by BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen.

(SHORT STORY) Although I have been loose with the facts and changed names and dates to avoid copyright violation, this story was inspired by actual events. Adjacent to where I work is a basement littered floor to ceiling with "antiques" (aka junk). Among the wreckage is a shelf of National Geographic magazines dating back to 1924. They're fun to peek through. In one 1970s issue, I read the story of a man who set out to walk from the northernmost foothills of the Andes in South America to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego. His wife joined him on part of the trip, but died in an accident. The interviewer asked if he intended to continue, and he said yes. Internet searches, trips to the library, and perusals of future issues turned up nothing for me in the way of a followup or resolution to this story. Naturally, as a fiction writer, I took it upon myself to invent the rest of his story.In my story, he turns up again a dozen years later, crazed but still wandering. Three decades later, another Nat Geo photojournalist finds him in Patagonia and walks with him, trying to establish whether he is a hoaxer or the real thing. Guillermo Faulkner, as I've named him, slowly turned from a serious world traveler to a lost troubadour, to an urban legend. As a short story writer, I value brevity. This is the first time I've been so taken with an idea that I've been tempted to write a novel. Unfortunately, I feel I've mastered neither the state of mind nor the state of affairs necessary to dive wholeheartedly into that effort. So I sought out a way to tell the story briefly. Thus the twist: A man walks into a bar claiming that this urban legend is real. The entire story is told as a story within a story, and the dramatic tension comes from the question: Can this man, this americano, be trusted?

After complaining that her life is uninteresting, Rachel finds herself transported to a place where periodic storms occur which affect the inhabitants in strange ways and cause pigs to float in the air. Rachel's friend Burt, who has come to cheer her when she has a cold, makes her believe in the impossible. After a boring day at home with a cold, Rachel wakes to find herself flying on a unicorn's back through a sky full of pigs. Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, 1987. Literature of Delight. After big plans, willful designs, and nearly unbridled enthusiasm, Dolores finds that her party isn't going quite as she hoped. Such pluck comes along only once in a while; sit back and allow readers to revel in Dolores's unique joie de vivre. Literature of Delight. Rodda takes a funny idea-pigs might fly-and expands it to an entertaining novel for middle readers. On a rainy day, Rachel is tired of being cooped up with a cold and wishes for something to happen. She winds up in a very odd place where certain weather systems make pigs fly and people just a little bit crazy in storms known as grunters. The premise is lighthearted and funny, and its promise is fulfilled.After complaining that her life is uninteresting, Rachel finds herself transported to a place where periodic storms occur which affect the inhabitants in strange ways and cause pigs to float in the air