Mommy and Me at the Boston Kite Festival

About the Book

Mommy and Me at the Boston Kite Festival is set in 1980s Boston. The main characters are five-year-old Okie and his mom, who live in Brigham Circle. While her husband is in his country, Nigeria, performing community service in the youth corp after being educated in America, Okie and his mom enjoy great adventures! One of which is attending the Boston Kite Festival. The pair take a trolley ride, connecting to the subway downtown on to Forest Hills Station. A short bus ride and the two are at the kite festival! Walking through Franklin Park, the aroma from the hot dog and Italian sausage stands and the sight of ice-cream and slush carts all add to the excitement of the Kite Festival. The two plant themselves on a grassy hill covered in soft green grass where Okie can fly his kite! Okie’s kite is flying high without lots of running. The right position keeps him enjoying his high-flying kite for hours. After a couple of hours, he catches the eye of a reporter, who speaks to Okie’s mom and is permitted to talk with him about kites. A delightful end to this story is sure to please kite-flying fans!

About the Author

Alice Lawrence-Emuoyibo, of Austell, GA is a retired businesswoman, who grew up in Thomasville, Alabama. She moved to Boston after high school. The author holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Boston’s Suffolk University. She finished her MBA when Okie was 2, and worked in Boston before moving to Atlanta in 2003. An avid children’s book reader, she read aloud to children in the Boston Schools and ran a read aloud program for children residing in a homeless shelter with their mothers, next door to her office in Boston during the 1990s. Alice gives children’s books to family members and shares stories of her son, Okie growing up in Boston. Encouraged by her family to write her own book, she wrote, “Mommy and Me at the Boston Kite Festival”. This is a story about a 5 year-old boy and his mother who attend a Kite Festival resulting with a color picture of Okie flying his kite, appearing in a Boston Sunday newspaper. The author has been divorced from Okie’s father since their son was a college sophomore. Okie Emuoyibo lives and works in Boston.