![]() ![]() Although the author avoids spelling out Daisy’s conflicted emotions too blatantly, she never lets her speak (though William gets a few lines), which has the effect of keeping her heroine at arm’s length. Holmes’s clipped text, by comparison, is more down to earth and doesn’t do much to evoke the joy the kite brings Daisy (“When she feels the kite catch the breeze, she releases it”). Bentley’s illustrations, which combine zigzagging pencil lines with airy splashes of watercolor, feel downright windswept-trees, grasses, the children’s hair, and the unfurling kite string seem to be in constant motion in nearly every scene. But when a girl steals her friends beautiful yellow kite, she is swamped with turmoil. ![]() Sometimes we want a thing so much we cant prevent ourselves from taking it. A story about desire, guilt and forgiveness. She is so enamored of the experience that she flies the kite all the way home (“She does not look back once”), keeping it hidden away, partly out of guilt and partly because she isn’t ready to relinquish the kite. But when a girl steals her friends beautiful yellow kite, she is swamped with turmoil. Following its line, she meets a boy, William, who shows Daisy how to fly it. ![]() ![]() In this unusual friendship story, originally published in Australia, a girl named Daisy is enchanted by a yellow fish kite she spies soaring in the sky. ![]()
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