Up, Up and Away

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's colorful kites flying in the sky!

May 2 is the Chicago Kids and Kites Festival at Montrose Harbor. Celebrate this fun-filled day grab some books about kites!

Start with Kite Day, a story that features characters who lose their kite in a tree.

Learn where kites came from in The Story of Kites, a fun book with pictures and information about the history and origins of kites and kite-making.

Find out what Olivia does when the wind will not cooperation in Olivia and the Kite Party.

If you'd like to try making a beautiful and exciting kite of your own, Kites and The Magnificent Book of Kites will help you find the best materials to make a sturdy, high-flying kite.

Now you just need some wind and a wide open space and your kite will be soaring through the sky in no time!