Ping-Li's Kite

Ping-Li is riveted by the fantastical shapes that streak across the sky above a city park. He will make his own kite, he decides, and it will be better than all the rest. He goes to Mr. Fo to buy the supplies, and the man tells him that he must paint his kite -- "or the emperor of the sky will be angry." But on the way home, the boy cannot resist flying his unpainted kite, and incurs the wrath of the emperor. Then Ping-Li's only recourse is to paint the most beautiful kite he can.