City of Darebin's
Festival of Kites

The Eighth Annual Darebin Festival of Kites was held on Sunday 4 April 2004
Bundoora Park, Plenty Road, Bundoora

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Make a kite for the 2005 festival!

These plans, from the AKA CD will help you get a kite in the air for next year's festival. Once the plan has loaded you can go to the File menu and choose Save to download it to your computer.

• Helen Bushell's Peace Dove - A paper kite (22 K)
• The 9 Step Diamond (98 K)
• Simon Freidin's Train of Diamonds (45 K)
• The Comet Kite (66 K)

There are more plans available in the general plan section of the AKA website.

There are lots of books around with plans for kites, information about the history of kites, and stories involving kites. Your library is sure to have several of the books listed below.

Non fiction: Books about kite flying, plans and the history of kiting.

Ambrose, L. (1975). Making and flying kites. London: John Murray.
Barwell, E. (1972). How to make and fly kites. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Baxter, E. (1978). Kites for krowds of kids. East Kew: Australian Kite Association.
Botermans, J. & Weve, A. (1986). Kite flight. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
Burkhard, T. (1974). Kitefolio. Berkeley: Double Elephant.
Bushell, H. (1987). Make mine fly. East Kew: Australian Kite Association.
Carpentier, D. (1981). Kites. Wakefield: E. P. Publishing.
Dyson, J. (1976). Fun with kites. London: Angus and Robertson.
Eden, M. (1989). Kiteworks. New York: Sterling Publishing Co.
Eubel, P. (Ed.) (1992). Pictures for the sky; art kites. Osaka: Goethe-Institut.
Fujino, A. & Ruhe, B. (1989). The stunt kite book. Philadelphia: Running Press.
Greger, M. (1984). Kites for everyone. Richland, Washington: M. Greger.
Greger, M. (1990). More kites for everyone. Richland, Washington: M. Greger.
Hosking, W. (1992). Kites. New York: Friedman Publishing.
Hunt, L. L. (1971). 25 kites that fly. New York: Dover Publications.
Jue, D. (1974). Chinese kites; how to make and fly them. Rutland: Tuttle.
Matthews, B. (1987). Kite-folds. East Malvern: Platypus Publishing.
Morgan, P. & Morgan, H. (1992). The book of kites. Pymble: Angus and Robertson.
Newmann, L. S. (1974). Kitecraft. New York: Crown.
Newnham, J. (1977). Kites to make and fly. New York: Penguin Books.
Rowlands, J. (1988). Making and flying modern kites. London: Dryad Press.
Rowlands, J. (1989). Kites to make and fly. London: B. T. Batsford.
Sams, K. (1991). Flying toys. Birchgrove: Sally Milner Publishing.
Schimmelpfennig, W. (1988). Making and flying kites. London: Hamlyn.
Shaw, W. H. & Ruben, O. (1977). Lawrence Hargrave: explorer, inventor and aviation experimenter. Stanmore: Cassell Australia.
Streeter, T. (1974). The art of the japanese kite. New York: Weatherhill.
Thiebault, A. (1982). Kites and other wind machines. New York: Sterling Pub. Co.
Toy, L. (1988). Flight patterns. Scottsdale: Sky High Press.
Wood, C. (1977). Making simple kites. London: Studio Vista.

Fiction: Stories involving Kites.

Fleischman, A. S. (1972). The wooden cat man. Boston: Little & Brown.
Grasse, W. (1974). Mai - Tzu and the kite emperor. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Harris, J. (1968). Sam and the kite. London: Hutchinson Junior Books.
Mattingley, C. (1972). Emu kite. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Maugham, S. (1948). Quartet. Melbourne: Heinemann.
Palmer, G. (1974). Taro's kite. Sydney: Cleary.
Reed, G. (1981). Bounce. Windemere: Rourke Publications.
Velthuijs, M. (1979). The boy and the kite. London: A. & C. Black.
Wahl, J. (1971). The wonderful kite. New York: Delacorte Press.
Watts, M. (1969). Yin Sun and the lucky dragon. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
Yolen, J. (1970). The seventh Mandarin. New York: Seabury Press.