cover image Kite Festival

Kite Festival

Leyla Torres. Farrar Straus Giroux, $16 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-374-38054-0

Available in separate English and Spanish editions, The Kite Festival/El festival de cometas by Leyla Torres (Saturday Sancocho) recounts a family's chance Sunday outing to a town celebrating its annual kite festival. Arriving in San Vicente without a kite, Fernando and his grandfather must improvise and use a collection of unusual items to make one themselves. Soft, full-bleed watercolors capture the family working together as well as the atmosphere of the festival.