[4] The story follows a young boy named Eddie Wing who had an extreme love for nothing but kites.

His parents ran a flower shop but did not have enough money to buy him the supplies to make a kite.

All the kids on the Wing's street were also poor so when Eddie decided to act out flying an imaginary kite they all followed and played along.

[5][6][citation needed] Alphons "Al" Van Mil was born in Texel, North Holland, in 1950.

[7] [citation needed] The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing is the winner of the Canadian Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year Award in 1996.