In this book, this story is about school age children, their extended winter holidays, and their special dream of flying a kite, and playing other winter games, and spending more time with their families and friends.The city for this story is Kabul city, in Afghanistan, and the time for this story is the 1960s and 1970s.This story also touches on famous names for kite flying in the suburbs of Kabul city during those years, and Kite flying festival every Friday in the eastern city of Jalalabad.There is also a mention of the old city in Kabul, and how this old city was like the center for kite making and kite flying, and some traditional foods.During those years, Kabul city and the whole of Afghanistan, was very safe, even foreign tourists felt safe to travel and stay for an extended period of time in this ancient country
